Military Aviation News Archive
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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07/08/2010
Boeing expects to receive an export license for its new F-15SE Silent Eagle within the month, a development that brings the company to openly pitch the jet to South Korea as a potential launch customer.
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07/08/2010
The international news media has been largely silent on rumors of military movements that could quite possibly be the forerunner of an attack against Iran. Any attack against Iran in this context would be against Iran's emerging nuclear weapons capability.
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07/08/2010
The Obama administration's recent lifting of sanctions against Russia's state arms exporter could boost orders for Russian aircraft from a somewhat-unexpected customer: the U.S. military.
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07/08/2010
The US government has charged an Irish firm and two of its executives with illegally exporting US parts for military aircraft to Iran, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
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07/08/2010
The ninth Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter entered flight testing on Tuesday, becoming the second test jet to fly with the next-generation avionics package that will populate all operational F-35s.
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07/07/2010
The 1971 Indo-Pak War was over and the Pakistan Air Force did not perform as well as in the 1965 war with India. The American technology which our brave pilots and engineers had absorbed and put to its maximum performance in the previous war let us down in the 71 War.
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07/07/2010
Singapore has reportedly shot down Korea Aerospace Industries and chosen Alenia Aermacchi for military jet trainer aircraft, DefenseNews reports from Seoul.
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07/07/2010
U.S. Aerospace Inc, a small cash-strapped U.S. company, said on Friday it has joined forces with Antonov, the state-owned Ukrainian plane builder, to enter the hotly contested competition to build a new generation of aerial tankers for the U.S. military.
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07/07/2010
The unmanned craft were rushed into use in 2001 and some design and system problems were never fully addressed. Losses don't involve lives but are expensive.
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07/07/2010
A Romanian military aircraft has crashed with 13 people on board after taking off from the Romanian town of Tuzla, leaving 10 people dead and three in critical condition, one of whom is reported to be in a coma, international media reported late on July 5 2010.
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07/07/2010
India's first indigenously built naval Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) rolled out here on Tuesday. The first flight is scheduled by year-end and the plane will be inducted in 2015.
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07/07/2010
Australia's first new air combat aircraft in 25 years – have arrived at RAAF Base Amberley in Queensland.
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07/07/2010
Modernising its fighter jet fleet, the Indian Air Force is going to upgrade its SU-30 MKI combat aircraft with the help of Russia.
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07/07/2010
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has won the approval to buy 20 additional Tejas fighter jets, the home-grown light combat aircraft to be built by military plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), defence minister A.K. Antony said on Tuesday.
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07/07/2010
Russian aircraft makers MiG and Sukhoi have spoken against the sale of RD-93 jet engines to China citing the threat of strong competition from cheaper Chinese models of fighter aircraft.
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07/02/2010
The firm will receive $33 million from the Pentagon to retrofit the Global Hawk, which is used for reconnaissance above Iraq and Afghanistan, to carry extra fuel for other unmanned spy planes.
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07/02/2010
Russia and Yemen could sign an arms contract worth over $1 billion, an international arms expert said on Thursday.
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07/02/2010
Russia is willing to provide transport helicopters to assist the NATO-led military contingent fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan, a defense industry official said on Thursday.
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