3/16/2010 Boeing A160T Proves Resupply Capability for US Marines  The Boeing A160T Hummingbird has successfully completed a cargo delivery demonstration under a U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory contract, proving the unmanned rotorcraft's ability to resupply frontline troops in rough terrain. |
3/15/2010 Afghanistan air operations declined in Feb.  In February, Air Force and partner warplanes dropped fewer bombs on Afghanistan targets than they have in 15 months, according to Air Forces Central Command. |
3/15/2010 Airbus A400M programme plans US sales  Europe's leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus says it plans to sell around 210 of its A400M military planes to the US. |
3/15/2010 First U.S. Black Hawk leaves Polish arms plant  The first U.S. Black Hawk S-70i military helicopter to be made outside of the United States was unveiled in Poland on Monday at a plant that once serviced Nazi aircraft and built planes for the Communist bloc. |
3/15/2010 Russian arms transfers to North Africa: Fuelling an arms race?  New SIPRI data on global arms transfers published today reveal that Russia remains the second largest arms exporter in the world. According to SIPRI data, the volume of Russian arms exports for 2005-2009 is of a similar level to that for 2000-2004. |
3/15/2010 Qatar Emiri Air Force Laud C-17 Fleet's Achievements  Boeing and the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) celebrated Qatar's deployment of C-17 Globemaster III airlifters during an Air Force Day ceremony held March 10 at Doha International Airport. |
3/14/2010 T-50: Russia's secret fighter jet with 'human intellect'  We can expect a real breakthrough when the Russian-Indian collaboration on the creation of a fifth-generation prototype aircraft based on the experimental T-50 starts to become a reality. |
3/14/2010 Venezuela's Chavez Receives Chinese Planes Armed with Missiles, Rockets and Bombs  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez formally took delivery of the first four K-8W airplanes out of 18 purchased in China for military training purposes, which, however, came armed with machine guns, air-to-ground missiles, bombs and rockets, and said that this armament increases military capability for “defending the sovereignty of this sacred land and of this revolution”
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3/13/2010 How Drone Pilots Wage War  Drone pilots sit in air-conditioned rooms far away from the anti-terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They guide their weapons systems with joysticks and monitors. The remote warriors work with a high degree of precision -- and at a fraction of the cost of a fighter jet. |
3/13/2010 As Its Arms Makers Falter, Russia Buys Abroad  Ask a Russian what the country makes well, and the answer, more often than not, will be the Kalashnikov rifle. |