October 13, 2014 Military Aviation News
10/13/2014
Spectators at the Miramar Air Show witnessed the end of an era in Marine aviation and a beginning, when a helicopter that served in the Vietnam War flew its last active duty performance and a stealthy, supersonic F-35B fighter jet flew its San Diego debut.
The CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter is being retired from Marine Corps service and replaced by the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor, which can fly faster and farther carrying more weight.
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10/13/2014
More than a decade of constant combat and the oldest airframes in the history of the service has degraded the Air Force’s mission capability to the lowest in recent memory, meaning more work for airmen who must keep them safe to fly and less flying time for planes in need of constant work.
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10/13/2014
Footage showing Australian bombs obliterating Islamic State targets won't be publicly released. Defence head Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin says the conflict with Islamic State isn't a video game. He says Australia had not released this imagery in 2003 when RAAF Hornets assisted in Iraq and that practice had not changed.
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10/13/2014
Turkey agreed to allow the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) to use its military bases to fight against the extremist group, Agence France-Presse reported Monday. US crews have long operated out of Incirlik Air Base in the south of Turkey, with some 1,500 airmen stationed there.
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10/13/2014
Director of UAV development programs at Russia’s Vega Radio Engineering Corporation Arkady Syroyezhko told RIA Novosti that economic sanctions against Russia had made the manufacturers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operate more effectively. “The import substitution program could help [Russian defense] industry to apprehend its drawbacks and to use its existing internal reserves.
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