Military Aviation News Archive
07/27/2010
U.S. stealth jets joined South Korean and U.S. warships Monday in military exercises aimed at warning North Korea against provocative acts, officials said.
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07/27/2010
Negotiations between Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Pentagon over the price of the next batch of F-35 fighter jets are nearing conclusion, according to a senior Lockheed official.
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07/27/2010
An Israel Air Force helicopter crashed yesterday in central Romania during a joint military exercise. Six Israeli airmen and one Romanian soldier were on board at the time.
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07/27/2010
Boeing on July 20 delivered to the U.S. Navy the first F/A-18 Super Hornet featuring a gun bay door manufactured by India-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
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07/27/2010
Boeing on July 16 successfully completed the final design review (FDR) for P-8I, India's long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft. The P-8I, based on the Boeing 737 commercial airplane, is a variant of the P-8A Poseidon that Boeing is developing for the U.S. Navy.
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07/26/2010
Venezuela may soon buy several Russian military transport aircraft, a department head for Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Monday.
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07/26/2010
Russia holds a strong position on Libya's weapons market, a department head for Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said.
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07/26/2010
Raytheon is a name you may associate with turgid-sounding defense tech, but rarely anything that may rank as cool. This may change: It's just unveiled its Scorpion helmet digital info tech, which may sound familiar to fans of Blue Thunder.
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07/26/2010
With two new aircraft carriers set to be inducted in the next five years and its air fleet in expansion mode, the Indian Navy has signed a Rs 3,042 crore deal to procure advanced trainer aircraft to train its aviators. The deal to procure 17 new Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers (AJTs) was signed on Friday and the aircraft will be delivered starting 2013.
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07/26/2010
The versions of the F-16 being delivered to customers now - and which is in contention for an Indian order for 126 jets - are the most advanced 4th generation multi-role fighter aircraft currently available on the international market, its manufacturer Lockheed Martin said Wednesday.
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07/25/2010
Embarked on a spree of defence and commercial aviation deals, India was clearly in the limelight at the Farnborough International Air Show 2010 and the coming months may see increased efforts by foreign firms to woo the country.
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07/25/2010
A farmer died and at least 12 other people were injured on Saturday when a Soviet-era MiG-27 Indian war plane crashed into a village in eastern India, police said.
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07/25/2010
Fighter jets from the Royal Air Force have taken part in a dramatic exercise to test Britain's readiness to respond to a terrorist hijack plot.
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07/24/2010
Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners’ flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircraft will do. But the military would like to change that.
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07/24/2010
The 19th Annual Alberta Air Show goes this weekend in Lethbridge despite the crash of a Canadian Forces CF-18 Friday.
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07/24/2010
Russia and NATO are discussing the possible delivery of 27 Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan, NATO Military Committee Chairman Giampaolo di Paola said on Friday.
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07/24/2010
The Peruvian Defense Ministry and Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport have signed a contract for the sale of eight Russian-built helicopters to the South American country, the Russian company said on Friday.
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07/23/2010
The Russian air force will take delivery of its first Su-35S fighter by the end of 2010, with a Libyan deal for the aircraft also anticipated to be concluded in the same time-frame.
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07/23/2010
The aircraft was built to meet criteria hammered out by four European defence ministries - those in the UK, Spain, Germany and Italy.
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07/23/2010
If you want to see the shift in geopolitical and military clout from Western powers toward their growing emerging rivals, look no further than the sales stands of this year's Farnborough air show.
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07/23/2010
A year after Air Tractor made its international arms bazaar debut in Paris, the Olney company has taken its crop-duster-turned-warplane to England for the Farnborough International Airshow, which opened Monday.
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07/23/2010
Pilotless drones, remote-controlled military aircraft destined to play a vital role in combat, took a high-profile place at the Farnborough air show this week.
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07/23/2010
Time is running out for South Africa with regard to joining Brazil’s accelerating programme to build a new military transport and air-to-air refuelling aircraft, the KC-390.
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07/23/2010
Sales of unmanned military aircraft remain constrained by financing hurdles and U.S. restrictions on export sales, but Boeing Co. has found a way around that.
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07/23/2010
Russia will most likely continue holding a second place on the global market of new multirole fighter jets until at least 2013, a Russian arms trade expert said.
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