February 23, 2014 Military Aviation News
02/23/2014
Buenos Aires will acquire military hardware including fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft weapons and specialised radar, as well as beefing up its special forces. The news comes months before drilling for oil begins in earnest off the Falkland Islands, provoking Argentina’s struggling President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Last month she created a new cabinet post of Secretary for the Malvinas, her country’s name for the Falklands.
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02/23/2014
The Pentagon is committed to early design work on a new aircraft that will replace thousands of helicopters now used by the U.S. military, its first "clean sheet design" program in years, the Army official heading the effort said on Friday.
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02/23/2014
An outspoken intelligence officer for the U.S. Pacific Fleet has ruffled feathers in Beijing and Washington by warning publicly that the Chinese military is training for a “short, sharp” war with Japan and planning to establish an air defense identification zone over the disputed South China Sea this year or next.
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02/23/2014
Finland is buying American FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS (MAN-Portable Air-Defense Systems) anti-aircraft missiles to replace the Russian SA-18s they have been using. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, Finland had been systematically replacing its Cold War era Russian weapons with Western ones.
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02/23/2014
The government plans to assess the impact of low-frequency noises caused by the U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in response to calls from Okinawa Prefecture, where the aircraft are deployed, government sources said Saturday. A panel will be set up in April to devise new environmental standards, while the Defense Ministry may send officials to the United States, where the aircraft were developed, to look into relevant studies.
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02/23/2014
Shortage of skill-based workforce was posing a challenge to the growth of the Indian aerospace industry in the absence of synergy between policy, industry and academia, HAL chairman R.K. Tyagi said Saturday. "India needs better training and education infrastructure with a pragmatic policy-industry-academia ecosystem to tap the huge employment potential in the aerospace industry," he said at the first aerospace round table conference here.
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02/23/2014
In the early morning along a barren stretch of beach here last week, Japanese soldiers and American Marines practiced how to invade and retake an island captured by hostile forces.
Memo to Beijing: Be forewarned.
One Marine sergeant yelled for his men, guns drawn, to push into the right building as they climbed through the window of an empty house meant to simulate a seaside dwelling.
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02/23/2014
The Philippines is close to having its first fighter aircraft in nearly four decades after payment terms for the acquisition of twelve F/A 50s from South Korea were approved. Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said the Philippines government and South Korea had already come to an agreement over the terms of acquisition of the F/A 50s.
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02/23/2014
Building missiles used to be back-breaking, strenuous work, and dangerous too, given the high level of explosives involved. But U.S. weapons maker Raytheon Co has revolutionized that process at a sprawling, classified facility in Huntsville, Alabama, where automated transporters ferry missile parts to gleaming assembly stations, and even tuck themselves away for charging when their batteries run low.
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