August 30, 2011 Military Aviation News
08/30/2011
(CNA) The United States is still mulling the sale of its advanced F-16 C/D jet fighters to Taiwan and has yet to make a decision, Taiwan's deputy representative to the U.S. said Thursday. Leo Lee, deputy head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington D.C., said the U.S. government is serious about its promise to Taiwan in the Taiwan Relations Act, and that the door on arms sales "has always been open."
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08/30/2011
The APG-79(V) multimode radar supports both air-to-air and air-to-ground combat missions and features active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology. In May 2011, Boeing awarded Raytheon a contract for 42 radars in the second procurement of the four-year Multi-Year III program for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
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08/30/2011
In the ten years since the 9-11 attacks, remotely-piloted aircraft have become the signature weapons of America’s global war on terrorists. As Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group aerospace consultancy observes in his August newsletter, the only stories concerning military aircraft that seem to make it into the news columns of most newspapers these days are reports about unmanned aircraft.
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08/30/2011
Compared to the West’s military interventions in the Gulf, Afghanistan or the Balkans, the war in Libya was a modest affair, with the engagement of about 100 combat aircraft and a baker’s dozen of attack helicopters.
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08/30/2011
Price Harry of Wales, who is an accomplished combat helicopter pilot, will undergo training at two U.S. military bases in California as part of an Apache attack helicopter course.
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