February 12, 2022 Military Aviation News
02/12/2022
Four more U.S. Navy destroyers are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea, part of a wider buildup of U.S. and NATO forces in Eastern Europe that alliance leaders hope will reassure NATO’s most vulnerable members. The deployments might not deter Russia from escalating its war in eastern Ukraine, however. U.S. President Joe Biden told NBC News on Thursday there was no conceivable scenario where American and Russian troops exchange fire. “That's a world war,” Biden said.
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02/12/2022
The sorties consisted of 8 Shenyang J-16 fighter jets, along with three electronic intelligence aircraft on the Y-8 platform. Taiwanese officials said that their responses to the PLA sorties included the scrambling of combat aircraft, the employment of air defense assets to further monitor the situation, and the issuing of warning messages to the Chinese aircraft via radio.
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02/12/2022
A fighter jet operated by a military contractor crashed west of Phoenix Thursday but the pilot ejected and no one on the ground was hurt, a spokesman for the contractor and Air Force officials said. The French-made Mirage F1 crashed near Buckeye, a growing community about 30 miles west of Phoenix. Officials in the area and the Federal Aviation Administration were referring all inquiries to Luke Air Force Base in nearby Glendale.
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02/12/2022
China’s progress toward military superpower status continues to accelerate. It already poses significant air and space power challenges to the U.S., but its expansionist strategies also affect all the adjacent countries, both in southeast Asia and farther north.
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02/12/2022
The State Department approved the potential sale of as many as 36 new F-15EX fighter jets built by Boeing Co. to Indonesia, bolstering U.S. ties with a key ally and Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The proposed sale is valued at about $9.5 billion for the aircraft and approximately $4.4 billion for related equipment, according to a statement Thursday from the State Department.
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