November 14, 2014 Military Aviation News
11/14/2014
An unidentified Middle Eastern country is in “advanced” talks to make the first foreign purchase of a fighter jet jointly developed by Pakistan and China. The joint sales team from the Pakistan Air Force and China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation also known as CATIC, are in advanced talks with 10 other countries to sell the JF-17 Thunder, said PAF Air Commodore Khalid Mahmood, who heads sales and marketing for the fighter jet.
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An Algerian Air Force MiG-25 'Foxbat' combat aircraft crashed during a training exercise on 11 November, national media reported. The single-seat Soviet-era fighter came down near a live-fire range at Hassi Bahbah in the north of the country, the Algerian Press Service reported the National Defence Ministry as saying. The pilot ejected safely and was recovered shortly after.
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The carrier variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft has completed more than 100 catapult launches and arrested landings during its first two weeks of sea trials, pilots and officials told reporters aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) on 13 November. The two C-model test aircraft on board Nimitz , CF-03 and CF-05, have already satisfied 95% of the threshold requirements for the first of three rounds of sea-based Development Testing I (DT-I), according to US Navy.
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A group of F-15 fighter jets flew over eastern and southeastern Massachusetts today as part of a planned training and media mission, officials said. The 104th Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard had planned to fly five of its F-15 Eagle fighter jets from its Westfield base to Hanscom Air Force Base, where the flyover was scheduled begin at about 8:10 a.m., said Lieutenant Colonel James Sahady, spokesman for the Massachusetts National Guard.
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Two weeks into Canada’s six-month mission in Iraq, the Canadian Forces is having a hard time finding Islamic State targets to destroy. Col. Daniel Constable, the mission’s commander in Kuwait, acknowledged the problem Thursday as he provided more details about a Canadian airstrike Tuesday that destroyed an ISIL artillery piece and killed an unknown number of militants.
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India's frontline combat aircraft Sukhoi-30 fleet, which was grounded after a crash near Pune, will be back in air "within a week's time", said Air Force Chief Arup Raha today. He also said that the findings of a Court of Inquiry into the crash are being finalised. This is the longest period that the Russian-made aircraft has been grounded since 2009 when its operation was suspended for nearly three weeks following an accident.
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The Indian Air Force on Friday expressed hope that the multi-billion contract for 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) would be inked "sooner than later", saying the project is "very important" for it to replace some of the obsolete fleet under its command. "MMRCA deal is very important for which which we have been stating right from the beginning. Everybody knows, government knows, the public knows (that it is) to replace some of our obsolete fleet which have served the nation well.
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The U.S. Navy received its 200th submarine-hunting MH-60R “Romeo” helicopter from Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] following a patch signing with Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Seven-Two (HSM-72). The cornerstone of the U.S. Navy’s anti-surface and anti-submarine operations, MH-60R helicopters have flown more than 250,000 hours in operation with the Fleet, providing increased surveillance and situational awareness.
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Two US Air Force F-16 fighter jets are scheduled to start military drills in Estonian airspace Thursday, the country's Defense Forces announced. For two days, the American fighters and Estonian air traffic controllers will conduct flights in Harju County in the northern part of the county, according to a statement published Wednesday on the website of the Estonian Defense Forces.
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A detachment of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) will be introduced in Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Area, the country's Eastern Military District (EMD) representative Alexander Gordeev told journalists Thursday. "The detachment will be stationed at one of the airfields near the city of Anadyr," Gordeev said. It is planned that airfield-based UAVs and mobile systems will make up part of the detachment's service. Only contract servicemen will be operating the drones.
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