Military Aviation News Archive
06/11/2010
P-8A Poseidon aircraft T2 successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight on June 8 in Seattle. T2 will be used to verify integrated mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD.
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06/11/2010
Workers at a Boeing Co. facility that builds large cargo jets have ratified a new labor contract and will return to work Thursday, ending a month-long strike that jeopardized the expensive military program's future.
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06/11/2010
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company NV (EADS) has signed licensing contracts with six aerospace firms to develop military aircraft systems using its technologies, a company official said Thursday.
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06/11/2010
Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft T2 successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight on June 8 in Seattle. T2 will be used to verify integrated mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
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06/10/2010
Airbus Military is in talks to sell eight military transport aircraft to Brazil’s air force, Valor Economico reported, citing Domingo Urena-Raso, head of the unit of Airbus SAS.
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06/10/2010
Four U.S. soldiers are killed in the attack in volatile Helmand province. A roadside bomb leaves another coalition service member dead and brings the number of troops killed in June to 29.
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06/10/2010
Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers are carrying out a 23-hour patrol with a planned flight range of 18,000 kilometers (over 11,000 miles), an Air Force spokesman said on Wednesday.
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06/10/2010
The first three C-130J Super Hercules for India take the final positions on Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in Marietta, Ga.
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06/10/2010
As the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq moves toward its final phase and Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program, U.S. officials say the Pentagon, after many months of hesitation, is expected to sell Baghdad late-model F-16 strike aircraft.
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06/09/2010
Pakistan has announced plans to begin production of avionics and related gadgets for the Sino-Pak JF-17 Thunder fighter jet.
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06/09/2010
Lockheed Martin inducted its third C-5 Galaxy strategic airlifter into the Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP) production line at its facility here today.
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06/08/2010
Airbus Military Aircraft, which now has two flight-test A400Ms in the air following the first flight of aircraft MSN02 on April 8, expects its third airlifter to join the test program by the beginning of the summer.
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06/08/2010
The first shot to be fired at Europe's 21st century army plane came not from the barrel of a gun but a safety inspector's clipboard. In 2008, weeks after the first A400M troop transporter rolled off a gleaming new assembly plant in Seville, a group of inspectors traveled to southern Germany to scrutinize an important component for the plane's huge turbo-prop engines.
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06/08/2010
Are airplane pilots destined for the same fate as flight navigators and engineers? Will they be replaced by lines of code, electrons and data-linked commands from faceless controllers beyond the horizon?
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06/08/2010
China's J-15 carrier-based fighter will not be able to compete with Russia's SU- 33 fighter on global markets because it is inferior to the Russian aircraft, said Russian military analyst.
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06/08/2010
India is sending its frontline Sukhoi fighter jets to France for a joint air exercise to be held in the European country next week.
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06/08/2010
Italy's defense and aerospace group, Finmeccanica SpA, said Monday it received an additional $319 million order for eight Joint Cargo Aircraft C-27Js for the U.S. Air Force.
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06/08/2010
Airbus’s first military transport aircraft, the A400M, is expected to make its debut public flight tomorrow, two years and up to £10billion behind schedule.
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06/08/2010
Ottawa is moving on a sole-sourced purchase of high-tech U.S. fighter jets to replace its CF-18s despite furious last-minute lobbying by rival manufacturers.
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06/08/2010
The most advanced aircraft in the history of the United States Navy made its inaugural flight yesterday, assuring a future of long-range, first-day-of-the-war stealth striking capability from the Navy's big-deck carriers.
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06/08/2010
Boeing announced today that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the U.S. Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program.
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06/07/2010
Over the last decade, there has been increase in the military spending of almost all countries of the world. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), estimates, released on June 2, 2010, 1531 billion USD were expended on militaries as the defence budgets. Overall, there has been an increase of 5.9 percent in the defence spending during 2009, as compared to year 2008.
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06/07/2010
Two Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft - one of them piloted by the Alenia Aeronautica test pilot Matteo Maurizio - landed in the Central European country of Slovakia for the first time in order to participate in the Piestany Air Show.
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06/07/2010
Purnomo Yusgiantoro also told Reuters the country was discussing buying 10 more C-130 military transport aircraft from Lockheed Martin but had not come to any agreement.
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06/07/2010
A senior Chinese military official laid blame on the United States over the weekend for obstructing the development of smooth Sino-US military ties, claiming at a major Asian security conference in Singapore that the problems stem from US arms sales to Taiwan and maritime conflicts.
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