Military Aviation News Archive
06/21/2011
French aviation firm optimistic about selling multi-dimensional fighter jet to UAE, India and Brazil.
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06/21/2011
Weaponizing crop dusters . . . yeah I know I wish I'd thought of it too, but engineers at Moog Aerospace and Air Tractor beat us to it when they added weapons to the Air Tractor AT-802U single engine turboprop aircraft. No longer spraying chemicals, this lethal aircraft now has precision strike capability with bombs and guns. It is part of the static display at the Paris Air Show this week.
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06/21/2011
Northrop Grumman international head John Brooks speaks in slow, measured tones. His carefully spoken insights reflect a thoughtful, probing intellect - decades of experience in the defence industry. For nearly 30 years Brooks served in the US Air Force, rising to the rank of major general, with experience flying in the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules and C-141 Starlifter.
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06/21/2011
Nato has admitted civilians were killed during an air strike in Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning in the first acknowledged civilian casualties caused by the alliance during the three-month bombing campaign.
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06/21/2011
The first of four C-130J Super Hercules for the Qatar Emiri Air Force took to the skies over the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Ga., June 8.
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06/21/2011
ockheed Martin announced a new website for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft at the Paris Air Show today. The site, http://www.f35.com, provides the most up-to-date information on the F-35 program, including history, program updates, news, photos and videos.
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06/21/2011
Lockheed Martin announced an update to its media briefing schedule for the 2011 Paris Air Show. These events will underscore Lockheed Martin's commitment to meeting our customers' needs in the new reality of increasing global security challenges and affordability requirements.
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06/21/2011
China's fifth-generation fighter program is more for effect than substance, Russia's leading aircraft maker said on Monday.
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06/21/2011
European manufacturer Airbus' hopes of wooing international customers with displays from its military and civil flagship aircraft were hit by a double blow.
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06/19/2011
Prompted in part by the prospect of squeezed Pentagon budgets, U.S. defense groups have been consolidating operations in pursuit of higher value, higher technology pursuits. At L-3 Communications, as at both Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman previously, this means shifting out of service activities where margins are tighter and there is less scope for differentiation in a tight market, according to the New York-based group’s chairman, president and CEO Michael Strianese.
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06/19/2011
With the $2.4 billion Mirage-2000 upgrade deal with France in its final stages, India's defence ministry and air force top brass seem to be split over the high costs and likely benefits to the country's future air power needs.
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06/19/2011
Le Bourget will as usual provide an ideal platform for France's defence industry and armed forces to showcase the nation's frontline equipment and future military hardware. With its armed forces currently engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan and also over Libya, France's air transport and in-flight refuelling fleets are currently experiencing sustained high demand, with this placing pressure on its current aged types.
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06/19/2011
A group of British observers on board of a Swedish SAAB-340 aircraft will make a series of inspection flights over the Russian territories under the Open Skies Treaty on June 20-24, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said. "SAAB-340 aircraft and the equipment it carries were earlier approved and certified by international experts and specialists, including from Russia," the spokesman said.
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06/19/2011
AgustaWestland is preparing to unveil its first production AW159 helicopter at the Paris Air Show. tomorrow. Some 62 AW159s have been ordered by launch customer, the UK's Ministry of Defence for the British Army and Royal Navy to fulfil both over land and maritime missions with a common platform.
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06/18/2011
When the Paris Air Show opens next week, officials from the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin will undoubtedly be touting recent progress on the F-35 joint strike fighter program. But there won't be an F-35 there to demonstrate its prowess.
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06/18/2011
The Norwegian parliament has approved the purchase of an initial four F-35 jets in 2016 preparing for main deliveries in 2018.
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06/18/2011
Designed to replace the F-15 as the mainstay air superiority fighter in the U.S. air force inventory, the F-22 has big expectations riding on its wings, the most important of which is to maintain air superiority until the middle of the 21st century, when the next model comes out.
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06/18/2011
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has plans to set up four manufacturing plants for the production of medium multi-role combat aircraft, light utility helicopter, fifth generation fighter aircraft and multi-role transport aircraft, a senior company official said today.
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06/18/2011
Two months after being shortlisted, French firm Dassault and consortium of European companies Eurofighter have submitted their revised offset bids for the multi-billion dollar 126 combat aircraft deal, the process for which is expected to be completed by the year end.
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06/18/2011
Northern Sudanese military aircraft dropped two bombs within a kilometre of a U.N. compound near the capital of the Southern Kordofan border state on Friday, the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) said.
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06/18/2011
President Barack Obama's proposed defense budget calls for retiring six B-1B Lancer bombers from the nation's fleet, including two from Ellsworth Air Force Base. The Air Force recently notified Sen. Tim Johnson's office that four of the jets scheduled for retirement would come from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas and two from Ellsworth.
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06/18/2011
The 49th Paris Air Show is held at the suburbs of Paris, in Le Bourget, in the period from 20th to 26th June 2011. This air show is rightfully considered the oldest and most prestigious venue among other the aerospace exhibitions. The first display of aircraft in the French capital took place as early as in 1908. This year the exhibition in France will be the first to cross a historical centennial landmark.
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06/18/2011
While there are signs of a recovery from the global financial crisis, its effects are still being felt in the aviation sector, notably in defense spending. Cash-strapped nations are only now starting to spend, and many of them may still be looking for bargains at the Paris Air Show this year.
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06/17/2011
China said Friday that its maritime defense forces recently staged three days and nights of exercises in the South China Sea, a disputed, resource-rich region where tensions are rising.The drills involved a total of 14 patrol boats, landing craft and submarine hunting boats, along with two military aircraft, the official People's Daily newspaper said. It said the exercises were aimed at refining anti-submarine, replenishment and island defense capabilities in order to better respond to any futur
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06/17/2011
The second test of an Air Force experimental aircraft developed by Boeing ended prematurely this week just seconds after launching. A video released Thursday showed a B-52 bomber launch the experimental X-51 WaveRider shortly before it crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The 14-foot aircraft — which is designed to hit 4,000 mph — is being developed to give the Pentagon a new way to deliver a military strike anywhere around the globe within minutes.
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