March 31, 2013 Military Aviation News
03/31/2013
The American and British militaries are examining ways to preserve critical warfighting capabilities honed over the past decade of fighting side-by-side in Afghanistan and Iraq, as combat operations wind down and defense spending declines on both sides of the Atlantic.
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03/31/2013
Twelve editions, 13 years and several organisers on, the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition is still going strong. Some people have commented that the show is looking more and more meagre each time, but the fact is, it is getting bigger and no less important than when the idea was first conceived.
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03/31/2013
The Delaware Air National Guard will add a C-130 to its fleet of eight, and eight additional personnel, during the last quarter of the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the Air Force announced this past week. The summer 2014 change for the New Castle-based state Air Guard is part of the revamping of the Air Force’s original proposed budget plan for fiscal year 2013.
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03/31/2013
North Korea's massive but poorly trained and equipped military could cause significant damage in the early stages of an attack on its southern neighbor. But any attack would ultimately be repulsed by superior U.S. and South Korean forces, military analysts say.
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03/31/2013
The Georgian Foreign Ministry expressed “grave concern” over Russia’s snap large-scale military exercises in the Black Sea and said this action “runs contrary to the interests of stability and predictability in the European neighborhood.” “The current drills are unscheduled, unusual and go beyond the usual location of the armed forces in the spirit of the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence and Security-Building Measures.
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03/31/2013
The global military aircraft market is changing due to tight defence spending amid the current soft economic situation with nations looking for more affordable capability aircraft.
Boeing Military Aircraft Vice-President F/A-18E/F & EA-18 Programmes, Michael K. Gibbons said that many years ago, cost was the secondary consideration for everybody.
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