Military Aviation News Archive
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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06/07/2010
Chavez's socialist government has ordered 18 of the light attack and training planes from China, and the Latin American country received the first six jets in March.
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06/06/2010
Turkey is looking to find a new partner for joint defense projects as relations with Israel, which had for a long time been one of Turkey’s major allies in the defense industry, are seriously strained following a bloody raid by Israeli commandos on an aid ship en route to the blockaded city of Gaza earlier last week.
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06/06/2010
A vote on the proposed contract is scheduled for Wednesday. If approved by the 1,700 assembly workers, production at the military aircraft factory in Long Beach could resume as early as the next day.
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06/06/2010
Ukrainian aviation will not be able to exist normally without a cooperation with Russia, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Sunday in an interview with three Ukrainian TV channels.
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06/05/2010
Pakistan said it has commenced domestic production of avionics for the Sino-Pak JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft.
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06/05/2010
China’s Shenyang Aircraft Corporation created a copy of a Russian deck-based Su-33 fighter jet. The Chinese model of the aircraft was called J-15, Interfax reports with reference to the May issue of the Kanwa Asian Defence military publication.
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06/05/2010
Spain announced plans to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to target pirates off the coast of Somalia.
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06/05/2010
At the four-monthly meeting of Burma's top generals held in Naypyidaw during the last week of May, the junta significantly increased its military budget from last year, according to sources close to the Burmese military.
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