July 10, 2011 Military Aviation News
07/10/2011
Two F-15 fighter jets have intercepted a small aircraft near Camp David in Maryland, where President Barack Obama is spending the night with his family, according to the U.S. military. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the civilian aircraft was out of radio communication just after noon on Saturday. Fighter jets intercepted the plane and directed it out of restricted airspace near Camp David. The plane landed without incident.
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07/10/2011
China urged Japan to stop "risky actions" in the East China Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on its website. Flights of Chinese military aircraft over waters under China's "management" is "completely" in accordance with international law, the ministry said
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07/10/2011
The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas programme which has seen several delays since the project was conceived 27 years ago, has suffered another setback as Air Commodore Rohit Varma, project director of the National Flight Test Centre (NFTC) which oversees all flight test-related activities of aircraft, quit his post on Friday.
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07/10/2011
Are the days of "Top Gun" coming to an end? Not yet. But the Navy moved a step closer to a new era of unmanned carrier-based aerial combat last weekend. Aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower off the Virginia coast Saturday, an F/A-18D Hornet, modified to emulate an unmanned aircraft, made its first carrier touchdown without a pilot's guiding hands.
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07/10/2011
Having used it for aerial operations in Libya, the UK says India could do no better than invest in the Eurofighter. In New Delhi to talk defence relations and pitch for the Eurofighter over the French Rafale (the only two aircraft left in the race for IAF's 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft bid), British defence secretary Liam Fox told TOI in an exclusive interview that UK has been "extraordinarily impressed by its capability and availability" in the Libya operations.
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07/10/2011
A $649 billion defense spending bill for next year easily passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday after four days of debate in which war-weary lawmakers sought to curb President Barack Obama's combat operations in Afghanistan and Libya.
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07/10/2011
This September will bring the fifth anniversary of one of the darkest moments in the modern history of the UK Royal Air Force, when 14 servicemen lost their lives as a British Aerospace Nimrod MR2 surveillance aircraft exploded in mid-air over Afghanistan.
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07/10/2011
In the backdrop of the Eurofighter Typhoon combat plane being shortlisted in a $10.4-billion Indian tender, British Defence Secretary Liam Fox was here on a daylong visit Friday looking to expand defence business ties with India.
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