Military Aviation News Archive
11/05/2010
Lockheed Martin said it improved its version of the F16IN Super Viper on offer to India under the country's largest ever combat aircraft tender.
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11/05/2010
The U.S. Air Force is giving assurances that a program that provides aerial refueling of military aircraft going to and from Europe and the Middle East won't be dismantled altogether -- but it will be scaled back, Sen. Susan Collins said Thursday.
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11/05/2010
A Su-27UB fighter jet has crashed in Russia’s Far East while it was being tested after having just been repaired. Both pilots ejected in time and were not harmed in the incident.
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11/05/2010
Boeing and U.S. Air Force officials at Kadena Air Base celebrated the arrival of four F-15Cs upgraded with the APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar on Oct. 21. The newly arrived F-15Cs will join the APG-63(V)1 and (V)2 aircraft already in the 44th and 67th Fighter Squadrons to provide unmatched combat power for the defense of Japan. The upgrades were installed and tested at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
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11/04/2010
The Eurofighter consortium – the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy – is considering inviting India as the fifth partner in its defence alliance should it opt for the Typhoon multirole combat aircraft as part of the modernisation of its air force.
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11/04/2010
The Colombian air force on Wednesday unveiled the first military training aircraft built in the Andean nation, the T-90 Calima, and said it expects to assemble 25 units before the end of 2011.
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11/04/2010
Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport accounts for 85% of the country's arms sales worldwide, with the remainder coming from several companies authorized to deal in arms on the global market.
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11/04/2010
Russia has completed its part of a contract on the delivery of A-50 Mainstay AWACS aircraft to India, a Russian aircraft industry official said.
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11/04/2010
Boeing today announced that the company has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) for KAI to design, develop and manufacture the Conformal Weapons Bay (CWB) for the F-15 Silent Eagle.
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11/03/2010
The Indian Air Force (IAF) was going for a “composite upgradation” of its capabilities in the northeast, following which similar steps would be taken in the north, Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik said here on Tuesday.
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11/03/2010
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) will next year take delivery of the first of three Airbus Military C295 military transports. The north African state signed a contract with Airbus Military for the purchase of the three aircraft on Friday.
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11/03/2010
U.K. defense giant BAE Systems PLC (BA.LN) Tuesday welcomed U.K.-French defense and security cooperation and said it already had entered negotiations with French jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation SA (AM.FR) on development of a military unmanned aircraft, or drone.
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11/03/2010
The leaders of Britain and France signed a groundbreaking treaty on defense cooperation Tuesday that would combine many elements of their militaries, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced.
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11/03/2010
Argentina and Brazil are pooling industrial resources to develop a twin-engine military aircraft that is likely to compete on the international market with manufacturers from the United States and Europe.
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11/02/2010
The development of next generation combat UAVs along with the health of the Royal Air Force’s current fighter fleet will be key factors in determining how many F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters the United Kingdom buys in the coming years, a senior British defense official said today.
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11/02/2010
With the U.K. government’s decision not to field the Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft, military planners are now trying to decide how to cover the capability gap.
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11/02/2010
The MiG-21 LanceR plane belonging to the military base of Campia Turzii, central Romania, crashed near the airfield while preparing to land, the ministry said in the statement.
The plane was on a weather research mission, preparing instruction flights. An investigation will be launched.
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11/02/2010
Based on the research, global government spending in 2010 on military aircraft avionics systems, across all platforms, will total $12.9 billion.
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11/02/2010
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor performed its precision aerobatics at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show Oct. 30-31, marking the first time the aircraft has demonstrated its aerial capabilities in the skies over the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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11/02/2010
Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Sunday confirmed the ministry's plans to buy two foreign helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy and eventually produce vessels of this class on Russian soil.
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10/30/2010
The U.S. Air Force is close to finalizing a sole-source deal to buy up to 93 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters from the U.S. Army, according to defense industry sources.
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10/30/2010
Indian sources confirm to AVIATION WEEK that a flight readiness review meeting was held recently and the LSP-5 will fly “soon,” weather permitting. LSP-4 had its first flight in June.
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10/30/2010
US aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corporation has offered India its tailor-made advanced F-16IN Super Viper aircraft for the Indian Air Force.
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10/30/2010
The second A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the UK Royal Air Force has successfully completed its maiden flight from the Airbus Military facility at Getafe, Madrid following its conversion.
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10/30/2010
Argentina's government may participate in the development of the new military transport aircraft being designed by Brazil's Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA (ERJ, EMBR3.BR), or Embraer, and could buy up to six of the planes, the company said in a statement Friday.
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