September 17, 2011 Military Aviation News
09/17/2011
Increases in defense spending over the past decade have been good for the Indiana economy, boosting the state’s defense manufacturers and increasing its take of federal dollars. But with U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, and Congress looking to cut into the massive federal debt, the spending pendulum is swinging the other way.
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09/17/2011
The annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) have approved measures designed to further strengthen the alliance's cooperation, interoperability, and capabilities of the two nations' military resources.
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09/17/2011
When Marines are in a firefight in Afghanistan and need back up, they call in helicopters to blast the enemy from the sky. Sounds simple enough, but it’s not — according to current standard operating procedures for close-air strikes, ground troops radio coordinates to a pilot who then has to rifle through 60 to 80 pounds of maps to find the building he’s supposed to hit.
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09/17/2011
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] on Sept. 15 celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first flight of the C-17 airlifter. On Sept. 15, 1991, test aircraft T-1 took off from the Boeing Long Beach site on a two-hour flight that proved the engineering and design concepts of the aircraft and marked the beginning of the program.
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09/17/2011
Eighteen Su-30K fighter jets which were delivered by Russia to India in the 1990s could end up in service with the Belarusian air force, respected Russian business daily Kommersant said on Friday.
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