August 06, 2010 Military Aviation News
08/06/2010
Lockheed Martin will someday build the last F-16 fighter jet at its Fort Worth plant, but that day is still years away.
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08/06/2010
Iran claimed it had smuggled four S-300 anti aircraft missile systems with a 90 mile range in defiance of United Nations sanction that prompted a Russian ban on selling the sophisticated defence system to Tehran.
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08/06/2010
Although the UN, the US and the EU have separately adopted new sanctions to force Iran to abandon its nuclear programme, and in spite of the relative calm that has since prevailed between the Western and Iranian camps, Israel evidently feels that the sanctions are not enough. Claiming that the sanctions will not work, Israel has begun to advise its friends not to rule out "other options", meaning war.
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08/06/2010
Somehow, against all odds, the already-surreal competition to build America’s next fleet of tanker planes just got sillier and more venal. A tiny, troubled aerospace firm and its Ukrainian partner have been disqualified from the bidding because they handed in their proposal five minutes too late. The companies, for their part, insist that their messenger had a few minutes to spare.
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08/06/2010
China's air force this week is conducting a five-day exercise involving scores of aircraft and 12,000 soldiers. Dubbed "Vanguard 2010," it is the latest sign of China flexing its muscles amid rising military tensions with the United States.
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08/06/2010
Tactical Air Defense Services, Inc., an Aerospace/Defense Services contractor that offers air-combat training, aerial refueling, aircraft maintenance, disaster response services, and other Aerospace/Defense services to the United States and Foreign militaries and agencies, is pleased to announce that it has submitted a proposal for the purchase of 12 Dassault Mirage military aircraft to the government of a foreign allied country.
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08/06/2010
U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with what analysts say is a game-changing weapon being developed by China — an unprecedented carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D that could be launched from land with enough accuracy to penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced moving aircraft carrier at a distance of more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles).
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