January 20, 2014 Military Aviation News
01/20/2014
Britain's Ministry of Defence is close to placing its first major tranche of orders for the F-35 fighter jet, with an award for about 14 of the “stealth” warplanes due in the next few weeks.
The orders for the new plane, being built in an international project led by US defence giant Lockheed Martin, will signal the increasing role of the British military in the controversial F-35 programme.
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01/20/2014
Government warplanes on Saturday launched raids on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and the surrounding countryside, killing 34 people, including five children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Air raids launched by government jets and helicopters left 23 people dead in the city itself, and killed another 11 in the surrounding countryside, the Observatory reported.
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01/20/2014
Israeli warplanes raided two locations in the center and south of Gaza Strip at dawn on Sunday, according to local radio stations. The strikes targeted two sites used for training by Izz-Eddine Al-Qassam Briagdes, military wing of the Islamic movement Hamas.
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01/20/2014
The cancellation of the Canadian military’s Close Combat Vehicle (CCV) program is the first major equipment casualty of ongoing budget reductions, with industry officials expecting other procurement projects to be delayed or cut. Gen. Tom Lawson, chief of the Defense Staff, announced the CCV cancellation on Dec. 20 but denied government budget cutbacks were to blame.
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01/20/2014
It is a defence project that has flown headlong into controversy – as befits the world’s most advanced multi-role fighter jet, packed with technological gizmos and capable of 1,200mph bombing raids. But while the debate rages over the cost and complexities of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 warplane, one issue is easily overlooked: the most expensive Pentagon defence programme in history.
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