March 11, 2014 Military Aviation News
03/11/2014
Six US troops in Afghanistan were killed and one wounded in a helicopter crash Tuesday, but it was unclear if Taliban fire caused any of the casualties after the chopper went down. Military officials said insurgents did not shoot down the UH-60 Blackhawk, but they were investigating whether any of the US troops were killed by gunfire from Taliban militants after the crash.
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03/11/2014
Joint Base Charleston could see some job cuts in 2015. According to its public affairs office, the base could lose one of its four flying squadrons. Those cuts would come if Congress approves the Air Force's proposal laid out in President Obama's 2015 budget.
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03/11/2014
The Air Force plans to replace all National Guard A-10 units with new flying missions to make sure their states and bases will not lose positions, according to budget documents obtained by Air Force Times. The Air Force plans to cut the entire A-10 Thunderbolt II fleet, which includes 107 Warthogs assigned to the National Guard at four bases: Gowen Field Air National Guard Base, Idaho; Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich.; Martin State Airport. Md.; and Fort Wayne International Airport, Ind.
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03/11/2014
Your editorial assumes that the A-10 Thunderbolt is headed for retirement — just because that has been proposed. You then take a huge leap, writing: “The proposal to decommission the A-10 could easily lead to a decision to close Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the training site for A-10 pilots.”
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03/11/2014
The 10 C-130J aircraft the Air Force Reserve seems determined to move from Keesler Air Force Base have yet another potential new home. President Barack Obama's 2015 budget request has spurred the Air Force Reserve Command to plan to move the 10 transport planes from Keesler's 815th Tactical Airlift Squadron -- also known as the Flying Jennies - to the newly reactivated 913th Airlift Group at Little Rock Air Force Base.
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03/11/2014
The number of aircraft and personnel at Hurlburt Field should not significantly change because of planned shifts in aircraft inventory, including the elimination of two types of planes based there, according to Air Force Special Operations Command. The U-28 and MC-130P Combat Shadow will be eliminated in the next couple years, but new aircraft will be introduced, according to the Department of Defense’s most recent budget proposal.
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03/11/2014
Decisions made in the next few months on buying additional Joint Strike Fighter aircraft could give the RAAF a huge advantage over any adversary. Air Force chief Air Marshal Geoff Brown says that given the long lead times on complex weapons systems like fighter aircraft, the force Australia will field in 2025 and beyond is "pretty much" decided by decisions to be made in the next few months.
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03/11/2014
Polish government officials said Monday that the U.S. military was sending 12 F-16 fighter jets and about 300 servicemembers to their country in response to the situation in Ukraine. Some U.S. aircraft and servicemembers had already arrived in Poland on Monday, with the remainder expected later in the week, a spokeswoman for Poland’s Defense Ministry said.
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03/11/2014
Lockheed Martin received a $14 million contract in 2013 from the U.S. Army to design, integrate and qualify a High Reliability Turret for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) on the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.
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