March 05, 2012 Military Aviation News
03/05/2012
First it was the United States that got annoyed, and now it is Britain's turn to ask some tough questions about its India policy. Ever since the French Rafale fighter was declared the lowest bidder in the multibillion dollar contract to provide a new generation fighter for the Indian Air Force, a debate has been raging in the United Kingdom as to what went wrong with Prime Minister David Cameron's charm offensive in wooing India.
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03/05/2012
An Indian Air Force (IAF), Mirage 2000 combat jet crashed in Rajasthan on Monday but the pilot ejected to safety, an officer said. "The crash occurred around 12.45 pm. The pilot ejected to safety," the officer said. This is the second Mirage 2000 crash in 10 days. A trainer version of the jet had crashed in Madhya Pradesh on Feb 24, but both pilots, one of whom was an air marshal, had managed to eject in time.
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03/05/2012
Military chief Adm. Agus Suhartono has denied that middlemen were involved in an aircraft purchase deal that critics contend was overpriced by $50 million, but the issue continues to generate controversy. “I don’t believe the allegations about the involvement of middlemen are true,” Agus said on Saturday in Bogor. “The veracity of the report has to be rechecked.”
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03/05/2012
China’s always-controversial defense budget announcement will attract particular notice this year. While the U.S. implements potentially dramatic cuts to its defense spending growth, China is robustly increasing its military spending, which is officially set to grow at a clip of 11.2% to 670.2 billion RMB ($106.4 billion) in 2012.
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03/05/2012
Australia's Quickstep Holdings says it has been awarded the tender to build part of the C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft. The Perth-based company said on Monday it would be the sole supplier of the wing flaps on Lockheed Martin's C-130J. Quickstep managing director Philippe Odouard said in a statement the wing flaps would be built at Bankstown Airport in Sydney's west and could create 60 jobs.
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03/05/2012
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in Moscow has signed a contract with Sukhoi Co. JSC in Moscow to build the latest production lot of 32 Su-34 jet fighter-bombers for the Russian air force, Sukhoi officials announced. The Su-34, which NATO calls the Fullback, is being designed to replace the Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer and the Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire bombers as Russia's front-line jet strike fighter.
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03/05/2012
Preparing to meet military threats from China, the Indian Air Force has been conducting a major war exercise in the northeast, in coordination with the army, to test their combat potential. "The Indian Air Force's (IAF) Shillong-based Eastern Air Command commenced the exercise codenamed 'Pralay' (Apocalypse) on Feb 29,"a air force officer said.
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03/05/2012
A "mysterious" blast ripped through a Yemeni military plane at an air force base near Sanaa international airport on Sunday without causing any casualties, an airport technician told AFP. "An Antonov aircraft blew up in mysterious circumstances while it was on the tarmac at Dulaimi air force base," the technician said, adding that no one was reported hurt in the explosion.
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03/05/2012
Sikorsky's Executive Vice President for India and South Asia, Air Vice Marshal Arvind Jeet Singh Walia (retd), told India Strategic defence magazine (www.indiastrategic.in) that at present the offer was to make a naval variant of the famous Black Hawk, designated MH-70B Sea Hawk, if the Indian Navy opts to buy this aircraft.
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03/05/2012
The Russian Navy's Northern Fleet has accepted into service a modernized Ilyushin Il-38N anti-submarine warfare aircraft, which will also carry out electronic intelligence (ELINT) duties, the Northern Fleet's press spokesman Captain Vadim Serga said on Monday.
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