Military Aviation News Archive
06/29/2010
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, has said there is no restriction on the use of newly-acquired F-16 combat aircraft against any adversary.
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06/29/2010
Later this week, 47 hot air balloon pilots will light up the sky over Battle Creek while another pilot will fly like his hair is on fire.
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06/29/2010
Sometime in the next two weeks, the Boeing Company and European aerospace giant EADS must submit their proposals for the next round of competition in the Air Force tanker solicitation. The deadline is July 9th, halfway between America's July 4th Independence Day and France's July 14th Bastille Day, so get ready for some heavy-handed advertising from both sides about the true meaning of freedom.
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06/29/2010
Lockheed Martin's F-35B Lightning II Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing aircraft has made its first supersonic flight, engine maker Pratt & Whitney announced Monday.
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06/28/2010
Inside a windowless room at Houston’s Ellington Airport, the 36-year-old major with the Texas Air National Guard will sit down at the controls of a Predator drone as it cruises over insurgent hideouts and convoy routes in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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06/28/2010
France has promised to provide Lebanon with modern weapons, the National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday.
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06/28/2010
The Burmese air force continues to expand with the recent procurement of 50 K-8 jet trainer aircraft from China, according to sources within the air force in Meikhtila.
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06/28/2010
An agreement by the leaders of Seoul and Washington to delay the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON) by some three and a half years to Dec. 1, 2015 comes after the allies reevaluated the threat posed by North Korea's asymmetrical and irregular warfare capability.
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06/27/2010
After 41 years, South Korea is retiring the last of its 222 F-4D Phantom fighter-bombers. They (and F-5 fighters) have been replaced, over the last 15 years, by 40 F-15K fighter-bombers and 180 F-16s.
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06/27/2010
The Army is planning to retool its combat aviation brigades by altering at least one unit's combination of aircraft and adding drones.
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06/27/2010
The Pakistan Air Force today received its first four of 18 Lockheed Martin Corp. F-16s that the U.S. hopes will give the Afghan neighbor nation a crucial edge against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in its northwest.
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06/27/2010
The first of India's six C-130J Super Hercules airlifters, considered the world's most advanced transport aircraft, has emerged from the paint shop in Indian Air Force colours, roughly six months before its scheduled delivery.
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06/26/2010
Adding potency to PAF’s fleet, three most modern F-16 aircraft would be inducted at the newly upgraded base under the Southern Air Command of the country on Sunday.
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06/26/2010
A French company offered to sell 40 of its state-of-the-art aircraft Rafale fighter jets to India for a bi-lateral air exercise on Friday. An Indo-French joint exercise is to be held somewhere in India in 2011 – 12. The offer was made by the maker of the Rafale and Mirage fighters, Charles Edelstennie, who is also the scion of the Dassult family.
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06/26/2010
The Cabinet Committee on Security earlier this month quietly cleared one of the biggest defence orders of recent times.
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06/26/2010
More than 1,000 airmen are at Alaska's Elmendorf and Eielson Air Force Bases for this month's Red Flag Alaska, an international training exercise.
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06/25/2010
Israeli Air Force aircraft dropped off large quantities of military gear at a Saudi Arabian military base last week in preparation for a potential attack on Iran, a number of Iranian and Israeli news outlets have reported.
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06/25/2010
U.S. Air Force leaders on Tuesday ordered eight Boeing C-17 Globemaster III rapid strategic airlift aircraft designed to operate from main operating bases or forward operating bases with short or unimproved runways.
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06/25/2010
The French Air Force may field its latest Rafale fighters for an Indo-French military exercise in India next year. The Rafale's presence in such a setting would come at a time when competition for IAF's mammoth MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) contract, in which the French fighter is participating, would enter the final lap.
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06/25/2010
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) recently marked its 46th anniversary in Kaduna by displaying its combat readiness. Chris Agbambu, who was there, reports that the force has come of age and can now bark and bite.
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06/25/2010
Russia may start receiving its first An-70 military transport planes as early as in 2012, the defense minister said on Thursday.
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06/25/2010
The Boeing Company today announced that the U.S. Air Force has granted the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) approval to begin low-rate initial production (LRIP) following a successful Defense Acquisition Board Milestone C production review.
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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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