May 18, 2014 Military Aviation News
05/18/2014
A Laos plane crashed Saturday in the northern part of the country, killing the defense minister and the mayor of the capital city of Vientiane, according to Thailand’s foreign ministry officials Officials have not been able to confirm the cause of the accident but did clarifiy that three people survived the crash of AN74-300, which carried at least 14 people including Douangchai Phichit, the defense minister of Laos and his wife.
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05/18/2014
The fourth consideration (one argued by the pro F-35 lobby) is the value placed on continued R&D and active production of the fighter aircraft. Aircraft need to be upgraded and replacements will need to be acquired with such a small quantity by of 65. Only Saab and Lockheed have production lines scheduled beyond 2019. The Super Hornet production line is scheduled to be shut down in 24 months with no R&D funding offered in the most recent US Federal Budget.
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05/18/2014
Fighter jets serving in the NATO air-policing mission had to take off from its home base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, twice this week in response to unidentified airplanes approaching the air-space of the Baltic states. On Wednesday, UK fighter jets Eurofighter Typhoon took off from Šiauliai to identify an object flying close to the Latvian international waters without a flight plan. After identifying it as a Russian military helicopter, the NATO jets returned to their base in Šiauliai.
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05/18/2014
A Marine Osprey unit here has taken on an exclusive new mission that could have far-reaching implications for the future of the military’s prized tiltrotor aircraft. With combat operations in Afghanistan set to end this year, the Marines had planned to conclude V-22 deployments last fall.
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05/18/2014
Nigeria and its neighbours have vowed to join forces against Boko Haram under an accord described as a declaration of war on the Islamic militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls.
Meeting in Paris, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his counterparts from Benin, Chad, Cameroon and Niger approved an action plan to counter an organisation that has been blamed for 2000 deaths this year as well as last month's abduction of the schoolgirls from northeastern Nigeria.
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