September 26, 2011 Military Aviation News
09/26/2011
Russia's top jet engine-maker has signed an agreement to supply over 100 high powered engines for China's new fleet of fighter jets, but Beijing is yet to ratify the deal as it is apparently miffed by some stiff conditionalties of the deal, a media report said.
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09/26/2011
Kazakh Defense Minister Adilbek Jaksibekov flew to the area of the large-scale joint strategic exercises "Center-2011" on a supersonic jet fighter of four plus generation Sukhoi Su-27 from the Astana airport, the Defense Ministry reported on Friday.
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09/26/2011
Poland has been replacing its Cold War era MiG-29s with F-16s. Currently Poland has 48 F-16s and 32 MiG-29s in service, and those remaining MiG-29s are in serious need of upgrading. There is not a lot of money available to upgrade aircraft. So as a compromise, 16 of the MiG-29s will undergo a basic upgrade. At a cost of about $3 million per aircraft, the MiGs will get new electronics, including jam-resistant GPS and fire control computers.
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09/26/2011
Cassidian in Unterschleissheim, Germany, has finished upgrading the identification equipment of all German military aircraft, and has handed over the last installment of its STR 2000 military transponders to the German Procurement Authority BWB. Cassidian, the defense and security division of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS) in Leiden, The Netherlands, has delivered more than 650 transponders were delivered since 2002 to German military forces since 2002, Cassidian offic
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09/26/2011
Union leaders will seek urgent talks with the defence group BAE Systems after it emerged the firm is planning to axe a further 3,000 jobs in a "shocking" and "devastating" blow to the industry.
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