Military Aviation News Archive
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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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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