August 22, 2015 Military Aviation News
08/22/2015
The Pentagon released a new maritime security strategy for the Asia-Pacific region Aug. 21 that criticizes China’s aggressive claims to sovereignty over most of the South and Southeast China Seas and declares that the US “will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.”
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08/22/2015
Russia and Egypt have signed an intergovernmental contract for the delivery of Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters, a source in the MiG Corporation told Interfax-AVN on August 21. "A contract has been signed with Egypt at an intergovernmental level, and we will be next," the source said.
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08/22/2015
The war scenario that we were required to analyse was that a major power, with significant naval assets including an aircraft carrier, had invaded and established a considerable military force presence in north Western Australia. Due to the size of our coastline and our limited logistic ability, we were unable to prevent the successful hostile establishment of a bridgehead.
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08/22/2015
When P.E. MacAllister uncovered the flag of the Air Force's 71st Fighter Training Squadron, he uncovered the flag of a unit he helped establish in World War II — a unit that had been inactivated five years ago.
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08/22/2015
China has been accused by some countries of designing its military aircraft by copying the fighters of other countries, after an Internet user published a black and white photograph of the "number 2013" prototype of the Chengdu J-20, China's first stealth fighter on a test flight, Sina's military news Web portal reported.
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08/22/2015
In Syria, the airstrikes struck ISIL tactical units, infrastructure, a sniper position and weapons. “Attack, bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 10 airstrikes in Syria… 23 airstrikes in Iraq, coordinated with the Iraqi government,” the release read on Friday.
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08/22/2015
With nearly $400 billion spent on developing the F-35, the next-generation fighter jet which is still not entirely combat-ready, the Pentagon has touted the aircraft’s high-tech weapons systems. Equipped with stealth technology and electronic warfare capabilities, the military is also considering laser weapons, as well as a mysterious pod-mounted cyberattack system.
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08/22/2015
Islamic State second-in-command Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali was killed on Tuesday by a US airstrike in Iraq, White House National Security Council spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement on Friday.
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08/22/2015
China’s construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea sent Washington into a panic. But according to a new Pentagon report, the US now believes the land reclamation project to be even larger than initially predicted.
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