Military Aviation News Archive
07/23/2010
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor showcased its unrivaled maneuverability and aerial prowess for the international crowd attending the Farnborough International Airshow, July 19-20, in the United Kingdom.
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07/22/2010
In the period 2010-2019 the global military aircraft market is projected to amount to some €60 billion, including approximately €20 billion of logistic and retrofit activities. The market is growing, with a new generation multi-role combat aircraft being now in full series production, while there is an increasing demand for special missions and medium tactical transport aircraft.
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07/22/2010
Italy shocked Europe's military industry when it announced a major cut in the number of Eurofighter Typhoon jets it will order.
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07/22/2010
A first flight of the A330 multirole tanker and transport (MRTT) aircraft ordered for Britain’s Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) program is due before the end of the third quarter, said Antonio Caramazana, Airbus Military vice president, head of Airbus military derivatives.
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07/22/2010
Ongoing competition between Boeing and Airbus may have lent the most excitement to this year’s Farnborough International Air Show in England, but China’s expanding air force has also left its mark.
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07/22/2010
A surge in aircraft orders has taken the value of deals at the Farnborough International Airshow to more than $25bn (£16bn)
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07/22/2010
The pilot and co-pilot of a military plane ejected safely before their aircraft crashed in northeastern Venezuela on Wednesday, the national civil defense chief said.
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07/22/2010
Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport is preparing to compete for a U.S. tender to supply Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan, the company's deputy general director Alexander Mikheyev said on Wednesday.
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07/22/2010
Russia could sign its first contract for the export of Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets by the end of the year, a deputy head of Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
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07/22/2010
Boeing on July 22 will celebrate the 100th CH-47F Chinook helicopter built at the company's Ridley Township facility.
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07/21/2010
Eurofighter GmbH, the industrial consortium that builds the Typhoon fighter, will “pre-finance” the initial development of the AESA radar the aircraft badly needs for export campaigns, but only until next March, CEO Enzo Casolini said at the Farnborough Air Show on July 20.
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07/21/2010
Russia said Tuesday it had signed agreements to sell 20 Sukhoi figher planes to Vietnam and 16 to Algeria, news agencies reported.
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07/21/2010
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. said it won U.S. approval for an export version of the Predator drone, clearing the way for the first sales of the unmanned aircraft in the Middle East.
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07/21/2010
A futuristic battle was fought over the Pacific Ocean recently, where laser beams targeted four robotic aircraft and set them on fire, sending the flaming drones plummeting into the sea.
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07/21/2010
L-3 Communications, the prime contractor for the U.S. Army and Air Force Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) program, announced today the fiscal year 2010 order from the JCA Joint Program Office for eight C-27J JCA aircraft.
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07/21/2010
India could buy 10 to 12 more C-17 transport planes from Boeing Co. beyond the 10 planes already planned, Christopher Chadwick, president of Boeing military aircraft told Reuters on Monday.
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07/21/2010
Russia's fifth-generation fighters for export will be cheaper than their foreign analogues, the general director of the aviation companies Sukhoi and MiG said on Tuesday.
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07/21/2010
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] successfully launched a missile from the F-15 Silent Eagle's newly designed Conformal Weapons Bay (CWB) on July 14.
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07/21/2010
The Boeing Company and its subsidiary Insitu Inc. announced today that they successfully demonstrated a high-performance Narrowband Relay communications system aboard a ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in June.
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07/20/2010
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) today announced it has rolled out the first of 24 Beechcraft T-6C military trainers ordered by the Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF).
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07/20/2010
For 34 years, Peninsula residents could look skyward and spot the familiar silhouette of the F-15C Eagle.
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07/20/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry will buy the first 10 fifth-generation fighters between 2013 and 2015 and then another 60 after 2016, a senior military official said on Monday.
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07/20/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry may purchase some 20 An-124 Ruslan (Condor) heavy-lift transport aircraft according to the 2011-2020 state arms procurement program, a senior official said on Monday.
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07/20/2010
India will purchase two additional Russian-made airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft, the Times of India newspaper said on Monday.
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07/20/2010
Islamabad will put its JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft on sale at the Farnborough Air Show near London, a Pakistani TV channel said on Monday.
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