Military Aviation News Archive
06/24/2010
A Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II carrier variant successfully completed testing in which it was dropped from heights of more than 11 feet during a series of simulated aircraft-carrier landings. The tests validated predictions and will help confirm the F-35C's structural integrity for carrier operations.
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06/24/2010
Boeing today announced that it has received a $216 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the service's 59-jet KC-10 tanker fleet with a new communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system.
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06/24/2010
The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead.
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06/24/2010
The Sudanese military has assembled the country's first-ever military aircraft from spare-parts manufactured locally as part of the country's industrialization strategy, state media said in a report.
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06/24/2010
For the first time, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is participating in an air exercise with the French Air Force (FAF) and Indian Air Force (IAF) in France.
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06/24/2010
Twenty-seven members from the Belgian Air Component (BAC) 15th Air Transport Wing 20th Squadron made history this year by participating in their first Red Flag-Alaska (RF-Alaska) exercise.
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06/24/2010
Britain will try to boost defence exports to offset possible job losses after a defence sector review that is expected to slash spending, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
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06/24/2010
Taiwan's defence ministry said Wednesday it has shipped two Hawkeye early warning aircraft to the United States to boost their capabilities.
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06/23/2010
Inside a large hangar, three plane fuselages were lined up like husked corn, their wings removed, bundles of wires snaking through holes where the noses had been pulled off.
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06/23/2010
France's Defense Minister Herve Morin has said technical talks with the United Arab Emirates were being finalized and that France was expected to cover part of the modernization costs for the gulf state's fleet of Rafale jet fighters.
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06/23/2010
The Sukhoi “Flanker” is recognised today as one of the world’s best multi-role fighters. and is the first serially produced combat aircraft featuring super-maneuverability and the first export fighter in the world fitted with the onboard AESA radar.
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06/23/2010
In a major move for China's indigenous defence industry, China is also supplying its most advanced home-made combat aircraft, the third-generation J-10 fighter jets to Pakistan, in a deal worth around $6 billion.
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06/23/2010
The Australian subsidiary of BAE Systems will provide support service to the F-35 Lightening II combat aircraft that Australia will procure from the US defence company Lockheed Martin.
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06/23/2010
Northrop Grumman Corporation's new APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar met and exceeded its performance objectives successfully tracking long-range targets as part of the first mission systems test flights of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II BF-4 aircraft.
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06/23/2010
The construction of a Russian-Italian joint helicopter assembly facility will begin on Tuesday in the town of Tomilino outside Moscow, Russian Helicopters has said.
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06/21/2010
Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. is bracing for greater budget austerity at the Pentagon as it attempts to overcome strict cost targets for its most visible program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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06/21/2010
Russia's Defense Ministry will order at least 50 fifth-generation fighters from 2016, a senior official said on Thursday.
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06/21/2010
Russia's fifth generation fighter will be about three times as cheap as its foreign analog, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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06/21/2010
The Boeing Company today announced the start of flight tests for a B-1 Lancer bomber upgraded with new digital avionics for the aft cockpit, including a line-of-sight Link 16 data link.
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06/18/2010
A recent US Air Force scramjet test has hinted at a future where Hypersonic weapons and Spaceships streak through the sky at many times the speed of sound around the world.
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06/18/2010
Saudi Arabia has given its go-ahead to Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to the 12 June edition of the Times UK.
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06/18/2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor.
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06/17/2010
The last time this Andean nation went to war was in 1995, when it fought Peru over a rugged stretch of mountains called the Altos de Cenepa. But that hasn't stopped Ecuador from engaging in one of the fastest military buildups in the hemisphere.
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06/17/2010
The latest RED FLAG-Alaska exercise kicked off Monday at Eielson and Elmendorf AFB, AK.
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06/17/2010
This week, U.S. fighter jets are dueling about 90 miles off the coast of Hampton Roads in scenarios that pit F-22 Raptors from Langley Air Force Base against older F-16C fighters visiting from Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
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