Military Aviation News Archive
07/15/2010
Russia's Air Force chief said on Tuesday he refused to rule out the expansion of an air base in Kyrgyzstan.
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07/14/2010
Manager Nissim Gayus says it’s “business as usual,” six weeks after Israeli troops killed nine Turkish activists on an aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip. While the raid has strained a political alliance of more than half a century, commercial ties between the countries survive, according to Gayus, who works at Ankara-based Yilmazlar Construction Group.
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07/14/2010
The military has more than enough large transport planes, and the appropriation of any more in the next budget year will force some into premature retirement, Defense Department officials told a congressional panel today.
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07/14/2010
King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia has taken charge of arms negotiations with the United States and is seeking to downgrade the power of the defense ministry, which is run by his ailing designated heir, Prince Sultan, Paris's Intelligence Online says.
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07/14/2010
Boeing Co. and Netherlands-based EADS are in a battle that could redraw the boundaries for U.S. defense contracting for years to come.
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07/14/2010
Russia and China will cooperate in jointly developing and manufacturing a heavy-lift helicopter, a Russian deputy industry and trade minister said on Tuesday.
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07/14/2010
The Russian Air Force will receive more than 60 fifth-generation fighters from 2015-16, the force commander said on Tuesday.
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07/14/2010
The first Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion with new Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) enhancements was delivered to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in ceremonies here today.
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07/13/2010
Christened 'Taranis', this unmanned jet could be the combat aircraft of the future, carrying out intercontinental missile strikes while its pilot stays on solid ground.
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07/13/2010
One morning last July, a Russian-made military plane landed at an airport near this Lake Superior town. Nine men with foreign accents disembarked. Some went off to eat and shop. When they returned, a flock of federal agents and local police were waiting. Five men were taken to jail.
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07/13/2010
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days.
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07/12/2010
The third Airbus Military A400M development aircraft, MSN3, took off for the first time at 13:57 (11:57 GMT) July 9 from the Seville manufacturing site in Spain.
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07/12/2010
Russia will supply Afghanistan with 21 Mi-17 Hip military transport helicopters, an Afghan television channel reported on Monday.
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07/12/2010
The Iranian Air Force says it plans to deploy reconnaissance drones along the country's border and step up production of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with combat capabilities.
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07/12/2010
With the country’s rugged terrain and roads pockmarked with militant bombs, air support is vital in the fight for Afghanistan.
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07/12/2010
Airbus, the world's number one aircraft manufacturer by annual civil aircraft deliveries, will have two industry leading edge aircraft participating in flying displays at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow (19-25th July).
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07/12/2010
A sketchy outline of affected programs emerged during a July 7 hearing in which Defense Minister Hervé Morin appeared before the parliamentary defense committee. Morin said the government plans to postpone orders for a new fleet of multirole tanker and transport (MRTT) aircraft to replace the C-135 fleet.
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07/12/2010
India and the United States have begun talks here on the price and onboard equipment for the 10 Boeing C- 17 military transport aircraft that the Indian Air Force (IAF) wants.
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07/11/2010
The experimental aircraft has successfully flown at night. The Solar Impulse aircraft had took from Payerne (Switzerland) July 7, 2010 .The experimental aircraft Solar Impulse has landed safely Thursday, July 8 this morning after a flight of 26 hours, solely powered by solar energy and batteries.
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07/11/2010
The F-16 that touched down at Cecil Field on Friday morning is destined for a somewhat ignoble end: first turned into a drone and then shot down into the ocean.
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07/11/2010
Two gray F-22 Raptor fighters circled over Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam yesterday, turning on a knife edge before touching down and pulling up to an appreciative crowd of more than 1,000 people assembled to greet a new era in Air Force capability and history here.
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07/11/2010
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] Silent Eagle flight demonstrator aircraft F-15E1 completed a successful first flight on July 8 from Lambert St. Louis International Airport. During the 80-minute flight, F-15E1 opened and closed its left-side Conformal Weapons Bay, which contained an AIM-120 Instrumented Test Vehicle (ITV) missile. The ITV was not launched.
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07/09/2010
The US-based The Diplomat magazine and Jane's Defence Weekly in the UK published stories this month expressing concerns about the buildup of China's air force, respectively titled "China Air Force Steps it Up" and "Chinese military aircraft: up and coming."
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07/09/2010
The inter-theater redeployment of aircraft during Vostok-2010 was one of the key events of the strategic war games, which end today. The Su-24 Fencer and Su-34 Fullback tactical bombers used midair refueling to fly to the Russian Far East.
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07/09/2010
The issue of creating a new Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan's south is still on the agenda, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said.
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