Military Aviation News Archive
07/24/2010
Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners’ flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircraft will do. But the military would like to change that.
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07/24/2010
The 19th Annual Alberta Air Show goes this weekend in Lethbridge despite the crash of a Canadian Forces CF-18 Friday.
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07/24/2010
Russia and NATO are discussing the possible delivery of 27 Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan, NATO Military Committee Chairman Giampaolo di Paola said on Friday.
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07/24/2010
The Peruvian Defense Ministry and Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport have signed a contract for the sale of eight Russian-built helicopters to the South American country, the Russian company said on Friday.
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07/23/2010
The Russian air force will take delivery of its first Su-35S fighter by the end of 2010, with a Libyan deal for the aircraft also anticipated to be concluded in the same time-frame.
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07/23/2010
The aircraft was built to meet criteria hammered out by four European defence ministries - those in the UK, Spain, Germany and Italy.
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07/23/2010
If you want to see the shift in geopolitical and military clout from Western powers toward their growing emerging rivals, look no further than the sales stands of this year's Farnborough air show.
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07/23/2010
A year after Air Tractor made its international arms bazaar debut in Paris, the Olney company has taken its crop-duster-turned-warplane to England for the Farnborough International Airshow, which opened Monday.
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07/23/2010
Pilotless drones, remote-controlled military aircraft destined to play a vital role in combat, took a high-profile place at the Farnborough air show this week.
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07/23/2010
Time is running out for South Africa with regard to joining Brazil’s accelerating programme to build a new military transport and air-to-air refuelling aircraft, the KC-390.
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07/23/2010
Sales of unmanned military aircraft remain constrained by financing hurdles and U.S. restrictions on export sales, but Boeing Co. has found a way around that.
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07/23/2010
Russia will most likely continue holding a second place on the global market of new multirole fighter jets until at least 2013, a Russian arms trade expert said.
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07/23/2010
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor showcased its unrivaled maneuverability and aerial prowess for the international crowd attending the Farnborough International Airshow, July 19-20, in the United Kingdom.
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07/22/2010
In the period 2010-2019 the global military aircraft market is projected to amount to some €60 billion, including approximately €20 billion of logistic and retrofit activities. The market is growing, with a new generation multi-role combat aircraft being now in full series production, while there is an increasing demand for special missions and medium tactical transport aircraft.
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07/22/2010
Italy shocked Europe's military industry when it announced a major cut in the number of Eurofighter Typhoon jets it will order.
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07/22/2010
A first flight of the A330 multirole tanker and transport (MRTT) aircraft ordered for Britain’s Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) program is due before the end of the third quarter, said Antonio Caramazana, Airbus Military vice president, head of Airbus military derivatives.
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07/22/2010
Ongoing competition between Boeing and Airbus may have lent the most excitement to this year’s Farnborough International Air Show in England, but China’s expanding air force has also left its mark.
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07/22/2010
A surge in aircraft orders has taken the value of deals at the Farnborough International Airshow to more than $25bn (£16bn)
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07/22/2010
The pilot and co-pilot of a military plane ejected safely before their aircraft crashed in northeastern Venezuela on Wednesday, the national civil defense chief said.
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07/22/2010
Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport is preparing to compete for a U.S. tender to supply Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan, the company's deputy general director Alexander Mikheyev said on Wednesday.
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07/22/2010
Russia could sign its first contract for the export of Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets by the end of the year, a deputy head of Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
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07/22/2010
Boeing on July 22 will celebrate the 100th CH-47F Chinook helicopter built at the company's Ridley Township facility.
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07/21/2010
Eurofighter GmbH, the industrial consortium that builds the Typhoon fighter, will “pre-finance” the initial development of the AESA radar the aircraft badly needs for export campaigns, but only until next March, CEO Enzo Casolini said at the Farnborough Air Show on July 20.
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07/21/2010
Russia said Tuesday it had signed agreements to sell 20 Sukhoi figher planes to Vietnam and 16 to Algeria, news agencies reported.
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07/21/2010
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. said it won U.S. approval for an export version of the Predator drone, clearing the way for the first sales of the unmanned aircraft in the Middle East.
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