June, 2010 Military Aviation News
06/30/2010
One little noticed decision reached at the G-20 Summit was to postpone the transfer of wartime command of allied forces on the Korean Peninsula, originally scheduled for April 2012, until 2015.
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06/30/2010
Bulgarian Defence Minister Anyo Angelov has held talks with defence secretary Robert Gates, where the two officials discussed the heightened Bulgarian-US strategic military partnership, the Defence Ministry website reported on June 29 2010.
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06/30/2010
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Israeli military aircraft will no longer be allowed to use Turkish airspace.
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06/30/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry will auction part of the Moscow Region Kubinka military aerodrome in July for 212 million rubles ($8.6 million), a statement published on the ministry's website said.
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06/29/2010
US defence major Lockheed Martin today said it will offer its latest fifth generation F-35 fighters to meet Indian Navy's requirements for carrier-based combat aircraft.
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06/29/2010
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, has said there is no restriction on the use of newly-acquired F-16 combat aircraft against any adversary.
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06/29/2010
Later this week, 47 hot air balloon pilots will light up the sky over Battle Creek while another pilot will fly like his hair is on fire.
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06/29/2010
Sometime in the next two weeks, the Boeing Company and European aerospace giant EADS must submit their proposals for the next round of competition in the Air Force tanker solicitation. The deadline is July 9th, halfway between America's July 4th Independence Day and France's July 14th Bastille Day, so get ready for some heavy-handed advertising from both sides about the true meaning of freedom.
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06/29/2010
Lockheed Martin's F-35B Lightning II Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing aircraft has made its first supersonic flight, engine maker Pratt & Whitney announced Monday.
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06/28/2010
Inside a windowless room at Houston’s Ellington Airport, the 36-year-old major with the Texas Air National Guard will sit down at the controls of a Predator drone as it cruises over insurgent hideouts and convoy routes in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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06/28/2010
France has promised to provide Lebanon with modern weapons, the National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday.
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06/28/2010
The Burmese air force continues to expand with the recent procurement of 50 K-8 jet trainer aircraft from China, according to sources within the air force in Meikhtila.
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06/28/2010
An agreement by the leaders of Seoul and Washington to delay the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON) by some three and a half years to Dec. 1, 2015 comes after the allies reevaluated the threat posed by North Korea's asymmetrical and irregular warfare capability.
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06/27/2010
After 41 years, South Korea is retiring the last of its 222 F-4D Phantom fighter-bombers. They (and F-5 fighters) have been replaced, over the last 15 years, by 40 F-15K fighter-bombers and 180 F-16s.
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06/27/2010
The Army is planning to retool its combat aviation brigades by altering at least one unit's combination of aircraft and adding drones.
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06/27/2010
The Pakistan Air Force today received its first four of 18 Lockheed Martin Corp. F-16s that the U.S. hopes will give the Afghan neighbor nation a crucial edge against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in its northwest.
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06/27/2010
The first of India's six C-130J Super Hercules airlifters, considered the world's most advanced transport aircraft, has emerged from the paint shop in Indian Air Force colours, roughly six months before its scheduled delivery.
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06/26/2010
Adding potency to PAF’s fleet, three most modern F-16 aircraft would be inducted at the newly upgraded base under the Southern Air Command of the country on Sunday.
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06/26/2010
A French company offered to sell 40 of its state-of-the-art aircraft Rafale fighter jets to India for a bi-lateral air exercise on Friday. An Indo-French joint exercise is to be held somewhere in India in 2011 – 12. The offer was made by the maker of the Rafale and Mirage fighters, Charles Edelstennie, who is also the scion of the Dassult family.
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06/26/2010
The Cabinet Committee on Security earlier this month quietly cleared one of the biggest defence orders of recent times.
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06/26/2010
More than 1,000 airmen are at Alaska's Elmendorf and Eielson Air Force Bases for this month's Red Flag Alaska, an international training exercise.
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06/25/2010
Israeli Air Force aircraft dropped off large quantities of military gear at a Saudi Arabian military base last week in preparation for a potential attack on Iran, a number of Iranian and Israeli news outlets have reported.
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06/25/2010
U.S. Air Force leaders on Tuesday ordered eight Boeing C-17 Globemaster III rapid strategic airlift aircraft designed to operate from main operating bases or forward operating bases with short or unimproved runways.
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06/25/2010
The French Air Force may field its latest Rafale fighters for an Indo-French military exercise in India next year. The Rafale's presence in such a setting would come at a time when competition for IAF's mammoth MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) contract, in which the French fighter is participating, would enter the final lap.
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06/25/2010
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) recently marked its 46th anniversary in Kaduna by displaying its combat readiness. Chris Agbambu, who was there, reports that the force has come of age and can now bark and bite.
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06/25/2010
Russia may start receiving its first An-70 military transport planes as early as in 2012, the defense minister said on Thursday.
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06/25/2010
The Boeing Company today announced that the U.S. Air Force has granted the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) approval to begin low-rate initial production (LRIP) following a successful Defense Acquisition Board Milestone C production review.
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06/24/2010
A Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II carrier variant successfully completed testing in which it was dropped from heights of more than 11 feet during a series of simulated aircraft-carrier landings. The tests validated predictions and will help confirm the F-35C's structural integrity for carrier operations.
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06/24/2010
Boeing today announced that it has received a $216 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the service's 59-jet KC-10 tanker fleet with a new communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system.
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06/24/2010
The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead.
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06/24/2010
The Sudanese military has assembled the country's first-ever military aircraft from spare-parts manufactured locally as part of the country's industrialization strategy, state media said in a report.
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06/24/2010
For the first time, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is participating in an air exercise with the French Air Force (FAF) and Indian Air Force (IAF) in France.
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06/24/2010
Twenty-seven members from the Belgian Air Component (BAC) 15th Air Transport Wing 20th Squadron made history this year by participating in their first Red Flag-Alaska (RF-Alaska) exercise.
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06/24/2010
Britain will try to boost defence exports to offset possible job losses after a defence sector review that is expected to slash spending, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
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06/24/2010
Taiwan's defence ministry said Wednesday it has shipped two Hawkeye early warning aircraft to the United States to boost their capabilities.
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06/23/2010
Inside a large hangar, three plane fuselages were lined up like husked corn, their wings removed, bundles of wires snaking through holes where the noses had been pulled off.
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06/23/2010
France's Defense Minister Herve Morin has said technical talks with the United Arab Emirates were being finalized and that France was expected to cover part of the modernization costs for the gulf state's fleet of Rafale jet fighters.
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06/23/2010
The Sukhoi “Flanker” is recognised today as one of the world’s best multi-role fighters. and is the first serially produced combat aircraft featuring super-maneuverability and the first export fighter in the world fitted with the onboard AESA radar.
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06/23/2010
In a major move for China's indigenous defence industry, China is also supplying its most advanced home-made combat aircraft, the third-generation J-10 fighter jets to Pakistan, in a deal worth around $6 billion.
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06/23/2010
The Australian subsidiary of BAE Systems will provide support service to the F-35 Lightening II combat aircraft that Australia will procure from the US defence company Lockheed Martin.
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06/23/2010
Northrop Grumman Corporation's new APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar met and exceeded its performance objectives successfully tracking long-range targets as part of the first mission systems test flights of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II BF-4 aircraft.
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06/23/2010
The construction of a Russian-Italian joint helicopter assembly facility will begin on Tuesday in the town of Tomilino outside Moscow, Russian Helicopters has said.
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06/21/2010
Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. is bracing for greater budget austerity at the Pentagon as it attempts to overcome strict cost targets for its most visible program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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06/21/2010
Russia's Defense Ministry will order at least 50 fifth-generation fighters from 2016, a senior official said on Thursday.
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06/21/2010
Russia's fifth generation fighter will be about three times as cheap as its foreign analog, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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06/21/2010
The Boeing Company today announced the start of flight tests for a B-1 Lancer bomber upgraded with new digital avionics for the aft cockpit, including a line-of-sight Link 16 data link.
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06/18/2010
A recent US Air Force scramjet test has hinted at a future where Hypersonic weapons and Spaceships streak through the sky at many times the speed of sound around the world.
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06/18/2010
Saudi Arabia has given its go-ahead to Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to the 12 June edition of the Times UK.
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06/18/2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor.
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06/17/2010
The last time this Andean nation went to war was in 1995, when it fought Peru over a rugged stretch of mountains called the Altos de Cenepa. But that hasn't stopped Ecuador from engaging in one of the fastest military buildups in the hemisphere.
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06/17/2010
The latest RED FLAG-Alaska exercise kicked off Monday at Eielson and Elmendorf AFB, AK.
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06/17/2010
This week, U.S. fighter jets are dueling about 90 miles off the coast of Hampton Roads in scenarios that pit F-22 Raptors from Langley Air Force Base against older F-16C fighters visiting from Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
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06/17/2010
Tension that broke out between Turkey and Israel when the latter killed eight Turkish citizens and a US citizen of Turkish origin in a raid on a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla has resulted in Turkey freezing bilateral relations with Israel -- but joint projects and contracts signed with Israeli companies will remain as they are.
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06/17/2010
Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, and now the pressure is on to allow them to be used over the skies of the United States.
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06/16/2010
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is in discussion with the Indian government for hard-selling its mini drone Tracker to meet the country's homeland security needs, a top company official said.
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06/16/2010
Six Indian Sukhoi-30MKI multi-role fighters, supported by IL-76 heavy-lift aircraft and IL-78 midair refuellers, tore into the skies over France on Monday to kick off the joint combat exercise with the French and Singaporean air forces.
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06/16/2010
Clad in a tan flight suit, U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Brett Trahan trades barbed jokes - the kind born of long hours spent working and living together - with his flight crew. Yet the group, no matter how familiar they may seem, treats him with a friendly respect. Trahan is legendary in his unit, and a hard worker; he is also marked.
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06/16/2010
Ukraine is to begin this autumn the shipment of first batches of military hardware to Iraq under a large-scale contract worth over $550 million struck in 2009.
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06/16/2010
The two CN235s aircraft ordered by the Mexican Navy departed Airbus Military’s facility of San Pablo (Seville) with destination to the Navy’s air base of Tapachula, on Friday 11th June.
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06/16/2010
A wave of ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan isn't just a tragedy for the people of that Central Asian nation. It could also be yet one more headache for U.S. military troops whose surge in neighboring Afghanistan comes to a head this summer.
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06/16/2010
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has been plagued with cost overruns and missed deadlines. The price tag for the program has ballooned to much more than the DoD originally set aside for the aircraft.
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06/15/2010
Turkish newspaper "Zaman" reports that the Turkish Air Force has decided to use Turkish aircraft in intelligence gathering, after Israel withdrew officers who were training Turkish military officers on Heron unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
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06/15/2010
Tel Aviv and Tehran are separated by around 1,900 kilometers, which is the distance that separates the Israeli fighter jets from their Iranian targets in the event of war breaking out between the two countries.
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06/15/2010
Should U.S. skies be open to military drones? There is pressure to allow the unmanned aircraft to fly in the United States for law-enforcement functions, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is hesitant to act.
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06/15/2010
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time June 10, achieving a significant milestone. The aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.07 (727 miles per hour) on the first in a long series of planned supersonic flights.
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06/14/2010
years of having their military technology blatantly stolen by China, Russia is no longer selling them much of anything. In addition, the state controlled Russian media is now featuring lots of pundits deploring the low performance of the Chinese arms industry, and how poorly they have copied Russian military technology.
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06/14/2010
Iran is at the centre of a global storm: targeted by new sanctions, suspected by Washington, defended by Brazil and Turkey. But the complex diplomacy around its nuclear programme could be ended by decisions made not in the United States but in Israel, Paul Rogers writes for openDemocracy.
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06/14/2010
Russia is scrambling, without much success, to retain its Cold War era air transport manufacturing capability.
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06/14/2010
Moscow's decision to halt delivery of powerful S-300 air-defense missiles to Iran, citing the new U.N. sanctions on the Islamic Republic, may be politically convenient but it could carry a hefty cost for Russia in the Middle East.
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06/14/2010
The U.S. power in the Middle East are declining, however, discuss the possibility of a new cold war in the region is incorrect; powers such as Russia and Turkey are simply taking advantage of the power vacuum in the Middle East – English analyst writes Chris Phillips.
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06/14/2010
Despite being a key ally in the war against terrorism in which Pakistan have rendered innumerable sacrifices, the United States is extending military assistance to Islamabad under strict conditions and stipulations, reflecting the nature of relations between the two countries.
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06/14/2010
Russia must honor a contract to supply S-300 air-defense systems, an Iranian lawmaker said.
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06/13/2010
Saudi Arabia’s air force has signed a deal to upgrade its fleet of 150 strike aircraft and procure advanced weaponry to respond to an Iranian military threat while simultaneously denying reports that the country is coordinating with Israel over a possible strike against Iran’s nuclear sites.
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06/13/2010
The brakes have been put on talks between Israel Aerospace Industries and Russia over sales and the joint production of unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Israeli defense sources who wish to remain anonymous.
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06/13/2010
The first three of six C-130J Super Hercules airlifters purchased by India in a $1 billion deal with the US have taken their final positions on Lockheed Martin's assembly line in Marietta, Georgia, even as the evaluation is set to begin of the Boeing C-17 Globemaster, with India intending to purchase 10 of the heavy-lift aircraft.
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06/13/2010
Bangalore is set to have another aerospace research centre from the stables of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). While talk about this has been doing the rounds for a while, the company said it's ready to open the EADS Defence and Security (EADS-DS) competence centre. It was announced at the ongoing Berlin air show.
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06/13/2010
People's Liberation Army Air Force held on Saturday an official farewell ceremony for the J-6, a Chinese-built version of the Soviet MiG-19 Farmer fighter aircraft, Chinese television reported.
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06/12/2010
Crisis-hit Romania cannot afford to purchase second-hand F-16 combat aircraft this year, Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu said.
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06/12/2010
Russia has agreed to supply Syria with combat aircraft and other defense equipment, saying a previous sale was legitimate.
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06/12/2010
Eager to join hands with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and its associates in the development of India's Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas-Mark II,' the Eurojet consortium is offering its engine that could be tweaked to work on its naval version.
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06/12/2010
From packages tossed out of open cockpits during World War I to pallets guided by Global Positioning System equipment and wireless controllers into remote areas, U.S. military airdrops have significantly changed.
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06/12/2010
Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.
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06/12/2010
Almost one year since the US Navy’s first-ever stealth fighter, the F-35C Lightning II was rolled out at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth plant, the aircraft yesterday performed its first successful flight at the neighbouring Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base.
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06/12/2010
Russian aircraft holding Sukhoi has no plans to sign additional agreements creating a joint venture with its Indian partners in the production of a fifth-generation fighter, the general director said on Friday.
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06/11/2010
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is likely to begin trials of the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III heavy-lift transport aircraft, of which it intends to purchase 10, by the end of the month, an official said.
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06/11/2010
Russia may buy $12 billion of arms from European and Israeli companies, including DCNS and Iveco SpA, over the next five years as the world’s second-biggest arms exporter hunts for higher-quality weapons than domestic companies can provide, according to a Moscow research institute.
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06/11/2010
European consortium EADS Defence and Security (DS) is embarking on a twin-pronged strategy of increasing its presence in India while expanding its share in New Delhi's growing defence market.
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06/11/2010
P-8A Poseidon aircraft T2 successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight on June 8 in Seattle. T2 will be used to verify integrated mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD.
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06/11/2010
Workers at a Boeing Co. facility that builds large cargo jets have ratified a new labor contract and will return to work Thursday, ending a month-long strike that jeopardized the expensive military program's future.
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06/11/2010
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company NV (EADS) has signed licensing contracts with six aerospace firms to develop military aircraft systems using its technologies, a company official said Thursday.
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06/11/2010
Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft T2 successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight on June 8 in Seattle. T2 will be used to verify integrated mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
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06/10/2010
Airbus Military is in talks to sell eight military transport aircraft to Brazil’s air force, Valor Economico reported, citing Domingo Urena-Raso, head of the unit of Airbus SAS.
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06/10/2010
Four U.S. soldiers are killed in the attack in volatile Helmand province. A roadside bomb leaves another coalition service member dead and brings the number of troops killed in June to 29.
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06/10/2010
Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers are carrying out a 23-hour patrol with a planned flight range of 18,000 kilometers (over 11,000 miles), an Air Force spokesman said on Wednesday.
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06/10/2010
The first three C-130J Super Hercules for India take the final positions on Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in Marietta, Ga.
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06/10/2010
As the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq moves toward its final phase and Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program, U.S. officials say the Pentagon, after many months of hesitation, is expected to sell Baghdad late-model F-16 strike aircraft.
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06/09/2010
Pakistan has announced plans to begin production of avionics and related gadgets for the Sino-Pak JF-17 Thunder fighter jet.
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06/09/2010
Lockheed Martin inducted its third C-5 Galaxy strategic airlifter into the Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP) production line at its facility here today.
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06/08/2010
Airbus Military Aircraft, which now has two flight-test A400Ms in the air following the first flight of aircraft MSN02 on April 8, expects its third airlifter to join the test program by the beginning of the summer.
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06/08/2010
The first shot to be fired at Europe's 21st century army plane came not from the barrel of a gun but a safety inspector's clipboard. In 2008, weeks after the first A400M troop transporter rolled off a gleaming new assembly plant in Seville, a group of inspectors traveled to southern Germany to scrutinize an important component for the plane's huge turbo-prop engines.
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06/08/2010
Are airplane pilots destined for the same fate as flight navigators and engineers? Will they be replaced by lines of code, electrons and data-linked commands from faceless controllers beyond the horizon?
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06/08/2010
China's J-15 carrier-based fighter will not be able to compete with Russia's SU- 33 fighter on global markets because it is inferior to the Russian aircraft, said Russian military analyst.
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06/08/2010
India is sending its frontline Sukhoi fighter jets to France for a joint air exercise to be held in the European country next week.
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06/08/2010
Italy's defense and aerospace group, Finmeccanica SpA, said Monday it received an additional $319 million order for eight Joint Cargo Aircraft C-27Js for the U.S. Air Force.
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06/08/2010
Airbus’s first military transport aircraft, the A400M, is expected to make its debut public flight tomorrow, two years and up to £10billion behind schedule.
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06/08/2010
Ottawa is moving on a sole-sourced purchase of high-tech U.S. fighter jets to replace its CF-18s despite furious last-minute lobbying by rival manufacturers.
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06/08/2010
The most advanced aircraft in the history of the United States Navy made its inaugural flight yesterday, assuring a future of long-range, first-day-of-the-war stealth striking capability from the Navy's big-deck carriers.
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06/08/2010
Boeing announced today that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the U.S. Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program.
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06/07/2010
Over the last decade, there has been increase in the military spending of almost all countries of the world. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), estimates, released on June 2, 2010, 1531 billion USD were expended on militaries as the defence budgets. Overall, there has been an increase of 5.9 percent in the defence spending during 2009, as compared to year 2008.
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06/07/2010
Two Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft - one of them piloted by the Alenia Aeronautica test pilot Matteo Maurizio - landed in the Central European country of Slovakia for the first time in order to participate in the Piestany Air Show.
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06/07/2010
Purnomo Yusgiantoro also told Reuters the country was discussing buying 10 more C-130 military transport aircraft from Lockheed Martin but had not come to any agreement.
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06/07/2010
A senior Chinese military official laid blame on the United States over the weekend for obstructing the development of smooth Sino-US military ties, claiming at a major Asian security conference in Singapore that the problems stem from US arms sales to Taiwan and maritime conflicts.
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06/07/2010
Chavez's socialist government has ordered 18 of the light attack and training planes from China, and the Latin American country received the first six jets in March.
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06/06/2010
Turkey is looking to find a new partner for joint defense projects as relations with Israel, which had for a long time been one of Turkey’s major allies in the defense industry, are seriously strained following a bloody raid by Israeli commandos on an aid ship en route to the blockaded city of Gaza earlier last week.
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06/06/2010
A vote on the proposed contract is scheduled for Wednesday. If approved by the 1,700 assembly workers, production at the military aircraft factory in Long Beach could resume as early as the next day.
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06/06/2010
Ukrainian aviation will not be able to exist normally without a cooperation with Russia, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Sunday in an interview with three Ukrainian TV channels.
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06/05/2010
Pakistan said it has commenced domestic production of avionics for the Sino-Pak JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft.
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06/05/2010
China’s Shenyang Aircraft Corporation created a copy of a Russian deck-based Su-33 fighter jet. The Chinese model of the aircraft was called J-15, Interfax reports with reference to the May issue of the Kanwa Asian Defence military publication.
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06/05/2010
Spain announced plans to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to target pirates off the coast of Somalia.
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06/05/2010
At the four-monthly meeting of Burma's top generals held in Naypyidaw during the last week of May, the junta significantly increased its military budget from last year, according to sources close to the Burmese military.
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06/05/2010
The top U.S. commander in Iraq said he expected the United States to meet a long-standing Iraqi request for new Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 multi-role fighter aircraft, although not as soon as Baghdad had sought.
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06/05/2010
The U.S. military has started to investigate how its aircraft could participate in the future air traffic management system known as NextGen.
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06/05/2010
China's J-15 carrier-based fighter will not be able to compete with Russia's Su-33 fighter on global markets because it is inferior to the Russian aircraft, a Russian military analyst said on Friday.
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06/05/2010
Canada formally accepted the first of 17 Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] C-130J Super Hercules aircraft today at ceremonies here and at Canadian Forces Base Trenton.
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06/04/2010
Malaysia will take part in the Cobra Gold joint military exercise by Thailand and the US armed forces from next year.
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06/04/2010
L-3 Link Simulation & Training said it is working with the University of North Dakota to create the first non-military Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training Center.
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06/04/2010
A drone is an aircraft that flies without a crew on board. Their largest use is in military operations, for reconnaissance and attack missions.
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06/04/2010
Poland plans to buy 16 Lead-in Fighter Trainer (LIFT) aircraft to replace its Air Force's aging fleet of trainer planes. Poland's Ministry of Defense has said a tender will be announced in the next few months with the aim of acquiring the jets between 2013 and 2015.
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06/04/2010
Russia will supply Su-30 Flanker fighters and Yak-130 Mitten trainer/light attack jets to Algeria in 2011, the deputy head of the Russian Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation, Vyacheslav Dzirkalin, said.
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06/03/2010
Global military and commercial helicopter major Sikorsky Aircraft Corp is likely to tie up with more Indian companies in the next few months to produce components locally, a company official said Wednesday.
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06/03/2010
Airbus Military is discussing with Indonesian Aerospace, its partner on the C-212, “re-engineering” the light twin-turboprop transport to reduce its cost.
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06/03/2010
The US Congress has cleared the sale of C-17 Globemaster III strategic aircraft to India, the Indian media reported on Wednesday.
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06/03/2010
EADS, the European aerospace giant, has found the US partners it needs for its bid for a major US Air Force tanker contract, chief executive Louis Gallois said Wednesday.
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06/02/2010
A British aircraft broker (Balli Aviation Ltd.) was recently fined $17 million dollars, and put on probation for five years, for illegally exporting three Boeing 747s to Iran two years ago.
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06/02/2010
Kaman Aerospace has proven in tests that the unmanned K-Max helicopter can resupply troops with cargo airdropped by parachute, announced Lockheed Martin, which has worked with Kaman to enable the aircraft to provide autonomous cargo delivery.
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06/02/2010
The Mexican Air Force has taken delivery of the first of five C-295 aircraft it has ordered from Airbus Military. The aircraft is equipped with a palletized loading system and a medical evacuation kit. The second of the five airlifters will be delivered in the coming weeks, with all five handed over to the customer by year end.
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06/02/2010
Algeria's defense ministry plans to cut arms purchases from the United States because of lengthy delivery delays and concentrate on Russian weapons systems, the El Khabar newspaper reports.
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06/02/2010
U.S. and Pakistani officials Tuesday commemorated the delivery of two P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft to Pakistan from the United States, the U. S. embassy said.
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06/02/2010
A decision made public Monday in Taiwan that the French government is pulling defence personnel from the island over a court order to pay US$891 million to Taiwan because of a monumental scandal involving the sale of stealth frigates raises as many questions as it answers.
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06/02/2010
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a fifth generation, supersonic warplane combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, plus fully-fused sensor and network-enabled capabilities.
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06/02/2010
A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.
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06/02/2010
Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said a fourth batch of F-35 fighter planes will beat Pentagon cost estimates by more than 20 percent, even as new U.S. data pegged the overall program tab at $382 billion.
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06/02/2010
The US military has stopped flying aerial refueling tankers out of Krygyzstan as the government there presses to renegotiate a fuel contract for a major US base, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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06/01/2010
It is an age-old axiom that little creates absurdities like war, and this notion remains evergreen today. Take the case of the two victims of gunshot wounds shown in Tyler Hicks’s photographs, which accompany this post.
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06/01/2010
Whether you speak Swahili fluently or simply wrote a college paper on Ugandan history, the Air Force wants to find you.
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06/01/2010
A team of volunteers is restoring a World War II fighter found at the bottom of a Russian lake and brought back to the upstate New York factory where the plane and thousands of others like it were built 65 years ago.
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