Military Aviation News Archive
06/03/2010
Airbus Military is discussing with Indonesian Aerospace, its partner on the C-212, “re-engineering” the light twin-turboprop transport to reduce its cost.
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06/03/2010
The US Congress has cleared the sale of C-17 Globemaster III strategic aircraft to India, the Indian media reported on Wednesday.
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06/03/2010
EADS, the European aerospace giant, has found the US partners it needs for its bid for a major US Air Force tanker contract, chief executive Louis Gallois said Wednesday.
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06/02/2010
A British aircraft broker (Balli Aviation Ltd.) was recently fined $17 million dollars, and put on probation for five years, for illegally exporting three Boeing 747s to Iran two years ago.
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06/02/2010
Kaman Aerospace has proven in tests that the unmanned K-Max helicopter can resupply troops with cargo airdropped by parachute, announced Lockheed Martin, which has worked with Kaman to enable the aircraft to provide autonomous cargo delivery.
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06/02/2010
The Mexican Air Force has taken delivery of the first of five C-295 aircraft it has ordered from Airbus Military. The aircraft is equipped with a palletized loading system and a medical evacuation kit. The second of the five airlifters will be delivered in the coming weeks, with all five handed over to the customer by year end.
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06/02/2010
Algeria's defense ministry plans to cut arms purchases from the United States because of lengthy delivery delays and concentrate on Russian weapons systems, the El Khabar newspaper reports.
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06/02/2010
U.S. and Pakistani officials Tuesday commemorated the delivery of two P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft to Pakistan from the United States, the U. S. embassy said.
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06/02/2010
A decision made public Monday in Taiwan that the French government is pulling defence personnel from the island over a court order to pay US$891 million to Taiwan because of a monumental scandal involving the sale of stealth frigates raises as many questions as it answers.
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06/02/2010
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a fifth generation, supersonic warplane combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, plus fully-fused sensor and network-enabled capabilities.
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06/02/2010
A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.
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06/02/2010
Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said a fourth batch of F-35 fighter planes will beat Pentagon cost estimates by more than 20 percent, even as new U.S. data pegged the overall program tab at $382 billion.
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06/02/2010
The US military has stopped flying aerial refueling tankers out of Krygyzstan as the government there presses to renegotiate a fuel contract for a major US base, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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06/01/2010
It is an age-old axiom that little creates absurdities like war, and this notion remains evergreen today. Take the case of the two victims of gunshot wounds shown in Tyler Hicks’s photographs, which accompany this post.
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06/01/2010
Whether you speak Swahili fluently or simply wrote a college paper on Ugandan history, the Air Force wants to find you.
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06/01/2010
A team of volunteers is restoring a World War II fighter found at the bottom of a Russian lake and brought back to the upstate New York factory where the plane and thousands of others like it were built 65 years ago.
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05/31/2010
The crew members for the new An-70 military transport aircraft, jointly developed by Russia and Ukraine, will be trained in Russia, the commander of transport aviation said on Monday.
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05/31/2010
Replacing Canada's CF-18s with a new generation of fighter aircraft will cost taxpayers around $9 billion, one of the most expensive military equipment purchases ever.
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05/31/2010
Waha Capital PJSC, an Abu Dhabi-based investment company has a mandate to raise a total of 12 billion dirhams ($3.3 billion) for the United Arab Emirates’ military, Chief Executive Officer Salem Rashed Al Noaimi said.
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05/31/2010
Russia may export 232 new multi-role fighters worth over $10 billion in 2010-2013, a Russian think tank reported on Monday.
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05/31/2010
U.S. and South Korean forces said they are ready to repel any threat posed by North Korea as 24 stealth fighter jets deploy to the region and a report said the military alert level has been raised.
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05/31/2010
For Viking Air, a venerable 45-year-old Canadian aircraft is flying into a niche market for affordable smaller military planes.
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05/31/2010
With India’s fleet of 24 IL-76 aircraft now obsolescent, planners have decided to buy Boeing’s C-17 Globemaster III, widely acknowledged as the world’s most versatile military transport aircraft.
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05/30/2010
The Indian Air Force (IAF) seems set for trials of new combat and heavy lift helicopters this summer, possibly from June or July, as Boeing gets ready to field its latest versions of AH 64D Apache and Chinook CH-47F helicopters.
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05/29/2010
Selfridge Military Air Museum offers nearly $5 million worth of displays, attracting Metro Detroit families this Memorial Day weekend.
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