November 15, 2014 Military Aviation News
11/15/2014
China showed off its new J-31 stealth fighter at Airshow China in the city of Zhuhai to an audience of potential foreign buyers. It seems like everything is made in China nowadays, but the U.S. has still kept one piece of manufacturing, weapons, especially high-tech ones. China aims to change that, as the J-31 gets ready to compete with Lockheed Martin’s F-35.
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11/15/2014
Friday marked the final landing for the U.S. Navy's EA-6B Prowler. Squadron VAQ-134 landed back at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island before noon, after flying cross country from the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush. The squadron, also known as the "Garudas," completed 104 combat missions over Afghanistan and was called upon to support operations against ISIS, flying another 109 combat missions according to the Navy.
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11/15/2014
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was not alone when it crashed last July, according to new radar data released by a Russian air safety consultancy. Referring to readings taken by a radar station located in Rostove, near the Ukranian border, CEO of Aviation Safety consultancy Sergey Melnichenko told Russian daily Moskovsky Komsomolets that there were one or two planes in the air close to the Boeing 777 aircraft when it crashed in eastern Ukraine.
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11/15/2014
The Airbus Group warned Friday that the costs associated with a much-delayed military transport plane could increase after the European aerospace giant failed to meet a deadline for equipping the aircraft with combat capabilities. Airbus said the latest production snag involving the A400M Atlas cargo plane — which cost 20 billion euros, or $25 billion, to develop — risked adding to the €4 billion in added expenses that the group has already absorbed since 2006.
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11/15/2014
The US Department of Defense is concerned over Russia's increasing military presence near the gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, said US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. "Well, the very aggressive Russian behavior over the last few months is a concern," Hagel said Friday at the Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, as stated on the department's official website.
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