Military Aviation News Archive
05/25/2010
The Air Force will receive a new batch of 18 brand-new SF-260 basic training aircraft before the Air Force Day celebration on July 2. The jets are being assembled at a facility in Clark Air Base. The whole package is costing the government P660 million.
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05/24/2010
They may look like the blimps you see over major sporting events, but E-Green Technologies CEO Michael Lawson is quick to point out: They are airships.
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05/24/2010
Tensions have escalated sharply on the Korean Peninsular, where the sinking of a South Korean warship has created a "highly precarious" situation, increasing the risk of a flare-up in the 60-year old conflict, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, warned on Monday.
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05/24/2010
Four years ago, Britain decided to deploy a force of MQ-9 Reaper UAVs. Since last year, at least two British Reapers have been in Afghanistan at any one time. Britain has now ordered a total of 13 Reapers. The first British Reaper entered service in Afghanistan three years ago, and have, since then, spent over 10,000 hours in the air.
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05/24/2010
Coalition forces repelled an insurgent attack on this airfield on Saturday evening that wounded a small number of personnel, a Coalition spokeswoman said.
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05/24/2010
With the successful first test flight of the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) on Sunday here, India has joined the elite club of countries having the capability to produce advance fighter choppers.
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05/23/2010
The United States is considering a Russian proposal on the joint production of An-124 Condor heavy-lift transport aircraft, a Russian deputy prime minister said.
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05/22/2010
Although many nations (Algeria, Malaysia, Lebanon) are refusing, or retiring, MiG-29s, Syria is eager to get them. That's because Syria is broke, and patron Iran is becoming less generous (because of its own economic problems) with subsidies for military equipment.
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05/22/2010
The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to deploy F-22A Raptors to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and Kadena Air Base, Japan, in late May for approximately four months.
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05/22/2010
France looks set to clinch a multibillion-dollar deal for the sale of Rafale jet fighters to Brazil.
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05/22/2010
China is building an advanced combat jet that may rival within eight years Lockheed Martin Corp's (LMT.N) F-22 Raptor, the premier U.S. fighter, a U.S. intelligence official said.
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05/22/2010
Indonesia and China have agreed to continue cooperation in training pilots for Russian-made Su-family fighters in service with the Indonesian air force, the Antara news agency said on Friday.
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05/22/2010
Boeing will focus on its continuing partnership opportunity with Brazil at the first Air Power Brazil conference (Fórum Nacional de Defesa Aérea 2010).
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05/21/2010
The House Armed Services Committee late Wednesday added eight F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft carrier-based fighter jets to the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill shortly before the panel unanimously approved the measure, 59-0.
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05/21/2010
AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that Sweden's lead system integrator, Saab AB (publ), has selected AAI's Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) for use by the Swedish armed forces.
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05/21/2010
The F-35 Lighting II fighter jet will see further development of the F136 engine manufactured by GE/Rolls-Royce, as Pratt & Whitney has received criticism for its F135 development issues.
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05/21/2010
Lockheed Martin has signed a $40 million foreign military sales contract to deliver Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods (ATPs) to the Royal Saudi Air Force. This is the second Sniper ATP purchase in a multi-year precision sensor modernization program to improve precision targeting, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability of Royal Saudi Air Force F-15S aircraft.
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05/20/2010
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou said Wednesday the island will not engage in an arms race with China, despite the threat it poses, highlighted by the mainland's efforts to acquire an aircraft carrier.
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05/20/2010
New Two-Watt Cascade Laser System Emitting at 4.0 Microns Covers Important Spectral Gap and Offers Unmatched Power, Utility, Affordability for Defense and Homeland Security Applications.
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05/20/2010
Northrop Grumman Corp. said Tuesday it has been awarded a 3-year, $152 million contract by the U.K. Ministry of Defence.
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05/20/2010
The trial phase of the proposed purchase of the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) is nearing completion. Last heard, the Swedish JAS-39 Gripen was not able to take part as the company had brought a different (older?) model for trials supposedly because the new Next Generation model proposed for India was undergoing some trials in Sweden.
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05/20/2010
George Bush’s secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, who also happens to be Barack Obama’s secretary of Defense, has identified a free-spending governmental agency that will have to be reined in if the United States is going to balance budgets and cut deficits.
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05/20/2010
Peruvian President Alan Garcia took his peers in Latin American leadership to task for swearing by friendship and then carrying on spending billions on weapons purchases.
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05/19/2010
US Air Force Major Caleb Nimmo is the first American Mi-35 Hind attack helicopter pilot to fly in combat.
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05/19/2010
Hawker Beechcraft Corp. on Tuesday rolled out the first of six new aircraft it’s building for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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