March 14, 2011 Military Aviation News

Gaddafi using helicopters to quellrebels as officers fear ground troops will flee

03/14/2011

Colonel Moammar Gadhafi is curbing the use of ground troops as his commanders fear mass defections, military planners said on Tuesday. Britain's leading military think tank said Col Gaddafi could instead use fighter jets and, in particular, attack helicopters to inflict punishing damage on the rebel forces.

IAF to procure 64 Light Combat Helicopters from HAL

03/14/2011

The Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) is designed and developed indigenously by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in four years since the project began in 2006, and is likely to be ready for induction by the Army and Air Force before 2014, according to defense news.

Prince Harry to learn how to fight in Apache helicopter

03/14/2011

The royal is off to a secret US experimental combat weapons base where he will learn how to hunt the Taliban in his attack helicopter.

Middle East Receives One-Sixth of Global Arms Transfers

03/14/2011

In the last five years Middle Eastern states accounted for 17 per cent of international arms transfers, say researchers at Sweden's SIPRI.

India to deploy BrahMos cruise missile in fighter planes

03/14/2011

India is planning to deploy its 290km range supersonic BrahMos cruise missile on the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) being developed with Russia.

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