July 07, 2014 Military Aviation News
07/07/2014
As the Fourth of July weekend comes to an end, most Americans are still recovering from BBQs and fireworks displays. For several hundred U.S. military personnel, however, the end of the weekend just marks the start of another week in Iraq, helping the struggling Iraqi government fend off the militants that have taken over a vast swath of territory.
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07/07/2014
Recently the web site of the Russian company that makes the MiG-29 fighter posted a document stating that four Syrian MiG-29s had been upgraded in 2011 to the MiG-29SM standard. When this tidbit made the Western news media the document on the Russian web site suddenly had the reference to the four Syrian MiG-29s removed.
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07/07/2014
Afghan forces are struggling to wrest back control of territory from the Taliban in an operation seen as critical to preserving Kabul's hold in the country's south in the wake of a U.S.-troop drawdown. A resurgent Taliban last month amassed hundreds of fighters in northern parts of Helmand province—a hotbed in the long-standing insurgency against Afghanistan's central government and the focus of President Barack Obama's troop surge in 2009 and 2010.
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07/07/2014
The antiquated state of North Korea’s military equipment has resulted in a series of accidents, with the most recent being a half-century-old Soviet-era fighter that came crashing into the West Sea. A North Korea source told the JoongAng Ilbo recently that a MIG-17 fighter jet crashed into western waters late May. After the accident, Pyongyang issued a mandate prohibiting the use of Air Force aircraft, including the MIG-17 model.
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07/07/2014
India has sought foreign technical assistance to help reduce the weight of its military training aircraft being developed by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). Development of the HJT-36 Sitara intermediate jet trainer aircraft has struggled with technical issues and three incidents, delaying adoption by the Indian Air Force (IAF), its sole customer.
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07/07/2014
Driven out of their key stronghold in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia separatists regrouped yesterday in the city of Donetsk, vowing to renew their fight against the government in Kiev before thousands of cheering supporters at a rally. Ukrainian troops on Saturday forced the rebels out of Slovyansk, a city of about 100,000 that had been the center of the fighting. The government's success there suggested it may finally be making gains in the months-long battle against the insurgency.
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07/07/2014
Defence and aerospace giant BAE Systems has seemingly borrowed from Hollywood script-writers with futuristic concepts for military and civil aircraft. The company has revealed four technologies it reckons could transform the way aircraft engineering could evolve by 2040. Dubbed ‘The Transformer’, one design envisages smaller combat jets that join together in flight to boost fuel efficiency and increase their range before splitting up to attack.
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07/07/2014
rom fabric and wires to fly-by-wire, almost 100 years of Carrier Aviation will be represented at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day on Saturday, July 26. With the Royal Navy's next generation aircraft carrier being named on July 4 and edging closer into service, types as diverse as the WW1-era Sopwith Triplane, the cutting-edge Dassault Rafale and the Wildcat HM2 will highlight naval airpower, past, present and future at the show.
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07/07/2014
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’ visit to India will hopefully pave the way for an early finalisation of the long-stalled agreement on France’s delivery of Rafale fighter aircraft to India. While his visit did not culminate in an announcement as to when an agreement will indeed be signed, face-to-face talks between the two sides could have provided a push for a tying of the last knots before the finalising of an agreement.
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