September 03, 2014 Military Aviation News
09/03/2014
Boeing has supported more than 1,000 missions for the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) program’s fleet of three C-17 airlifters, achieving a mission capable rate of nearly 94 percent during the five years it has provided maintenance, engineering and spares through a comprehensive performance-based logistics program.
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09/03/2014
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says he has agreed with Russian President Putin by phone on a "ceasefire process" for the east. His office initially reported that a "permanent ceasefire" had been agreed but later revised its statement. The Kremlin stressed Mr Putin had not agreed to a ceasefire as Russia was not party to the conflict.
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09/03/2014
The US Air Force is moving ahead with plans to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet engine based on technological improvements achieved through an ongoing effort to produce a power plant for a future long-range bomber. In a request for information released 19 August, the air force said it plans to release a final request for proposals for the adaptive engine transfer programme (AETP) in the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, “notionally December 2014.”
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09/03/2014
Danny DeKeyser prepared for the ride of a lifetime by packing a couple of plastic bags in his pants pocket. He took them out when he felt a little air sick while flying over Southeast Michigan at speeds he'd never experienced before, but he didn't need them. DeKeyser, the second-year defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings, handled it well, his 40-minute flight Tuesday on a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet.
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09/03/2014
Islamic militants seized a dozen commercial aircraft in an attack on a Libyan airport last week. Now, intelligence agencies are warning the jets could be used in 9/11 style attacks.
“There are a number of commercial airliners in Libya that are missing,” one official told The Washington Free Beacon this morning. “We found out on September 11 what can happen with hijacked planes.”
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09/03/2014
The U.S. Army awarded Boeing a $234 million foreign military sales contract to supply 24 AH-6i light attack/reconnaissance helicopters to Saudi Arabia, affirming a long pending order. The Department of Defense announced the contract award on August 29; the estimated contract completion date is Dec. 31, 2016.
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09/03/2014
The video, titled “A second message to America”, includes warnings to Washington and its allies to halt military operations against Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq. An RAAF transport plane yesterday delivered its first cargo of weapons to Kurdish fighters battling the jihadist group and the Abbott government has left open the possibility of sending combat aircraft to mount attacks in Iraq.
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09/03/2014
The savagery of the jihadist campaign in Iraq would normally be enough to drive the world’s nations to military intervention, to stop the slaughter of thousands of men, women and children that is being promoted with pride by the terrorists calling themselves the Islamic State.
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09/03/2014
The military will hold its annual Han Kuang series of exercises later this month, including a drill to practice emergency takeoffs and landings of fighter jets on a freeway, the Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday. The drill is set for Sept. 16 on the Minxiong section of the No. 1 National Freeway, which passes through the southern county of Chiayi, military officials said at a news conference. It is one of four sections of that freeway designated as emergency runways in the event of war.
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09/03/2014
Should Canadians feel obliged to spend an extra $20 billion on defence because Russian President Vladimir Putin is bullying Ukraine? Of course not. Canada must do its share to deter aggression against our European allies, as we have in the past. But we can help them manage the threat without busting the bank.
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09/03/2014
Despite the ongoing hostilities in southeastern Ukraine, the United States plans to go ahead with the Rapid Trident military exercise, scheduled to take place in western Ukraine later this month and expected to involve up to 1,000 servicemen from NATO countries and other US allies, Reuters reported Tuesday. "At the moment, we are still planning for [the exercise] to go ahead," the agency quoted US Navy Captain Gregory Hicks, a spokesman for the US Army's European Command, as saying.
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09/03/2014
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has delivered the last four F-16 aircraft to Pakistan Air Force (PAF) under Pakistan F-16 Modernization Program, at a ceremony held at TAI's facilities in Ankara, Turkey, on September 02, 2014.
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