September 23, 2011 Military Aviation News
09/23/2011
The 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron recently filled its ranks with C-130J Hercules aircraft and aircrews as two new units joined the squadron. Almost two dozen C-130Js and a full complement of aircrew and maintenance personnel, split between California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing and Rhode Island Air National Guard's 143rd Airlift Wing, replaced C-130H-model Guard units from Alaska and New York.
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09/23/2011
Three aviation programmes - the Boeing KC-46A tanker, Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter and a next-generation bomber - have received firm and explicit backing from US Air Force leaders against sweeping new budget cuts.
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09/23/2011
The Indian Air Force will seek a more powerful engine for the Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation stealth fighter jet that is being jointly developed by Russia and India for delivery in 2018, a top government official said. The air force is aiming to induct 250 Sukhoi T-50s with stealth technology, 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft and 120 indigenously built light combat aircraft, known as the Tejas, in addition to upgrading RAC MiG-29, Dassault Mirage 2000H/TH and Jaguar fighter jets.
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09/23/2011
The Afghan air force has received three more G222 aircraft from Alenia North America.
The aircraft delivered were the 12th, 13th and 14th of 20 G222 aircraft ordered by the U.S. Air Force for Afghanistan. Alenia North America, a subsidiary of Italy's Alenia Aeronautica and part of the Finmeccanica group, said one aircraft deployed to Kabul this month and the second and third will deploy before the end of September.
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09/23/2011
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified U.S. Congress Sept. 21 of a possible Foreign Military Sales Order II (FMSO II) to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States for an estimated cost of $52 million.
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09/23/2011
A £17M fighter jet that will create a “virtual battlezone” in the sky is revolutionising the way pilots are trained at RAF Valley. The Hawk TMK2 is now in the process of replacing the existing Hawks at the Anglesey airbase – with state-of-the-art simulated technology bringing warfare into the cockpit. RAF chiefs have now started training-up experienced former frontline pilots that will instruct the first recruits on the new aircraft next April.
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09/23/2011
Japan is open to choosing a European aircraft as its long-awaited new air defence fighter, despite decades of reliance on the US for imports of sophisticated weapon systems, according to new Japanese defence minister, Yasuo Ichikawa.
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09/23/2011
The new arms package offered by the US to upgrade Taiwan’s F-16A/B aircraft is not enough to meet Taiwan’s security needs, the US-Taiwan Business Council said in a special commentary on Wednesday. The commentary by US-Taiwan Business Council president Rupert Hammond-Chambers was written in response to a US announcement on Wednesday that it had decided to offer an upgrade of Taiwan’s F-16A/Bs as part of a US$5.85 billion arms deal for Taiwan.
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