April 05, 2010 Military Aviation News
04/05/2010
As training jobs go, U.S. Colonel Bernard Mater's task of mentoring the fledgling Afghan air force is among the more daunting ones.
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04/05/2010
NEW DELHI: India’s concerns about increasing military aid to Pakistan might not bother the Obama administration but the Sarkozy government is apparently taking note.
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04/05/2010
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has signed two contracts worth $1.2 billion on the deliveries of 16 jet fighters to Algeria and another six fighters to Uganda, the Russian Vedomosti daily reported on Monday.
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04/05/2010
U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command) has adopted a U.S. Marine Corps idea to provide an "instant gunship" system, which enables weapons and sensors to be quickly rolled into a C-130 transport and hooked up. This takes a few hours, and turns the C-130 into a gunship (similar in capabilities existing AC-130 gunships).
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04/05/2010
An RAF pilot and an aviator from the Luftwaffe have flown together on a combat mission for the first time since Britain and Germany were bitter Second World War enemies.
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04/05/2010
In March, C-130s conducted about 20 short-takeoff-and-landing maneuvers each night at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center. STOL maneuvers require pilots to touch down inside a 500-foot landing zone and stop within 3,300 feet.
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04/05/2010
In Spanish, Ecuador means “equator”. Manta is a port town facing the Pacific Ocean in the west of the country. On the coast is a large Ecuadorian air force base. From 1999, the American military had been using the base as a Forward Operating Location (FOL).
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04/05/2010
South Africa's air force chief has delivered a damning verdict on the country's military aircraft, raising concerns about defence capabilities.
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04/05/2010
The Taiwan Air Force has been blasted for not reacting to a Russian military aircraft's incursion into Taiwan's airspace, a newspaper said Tuesday.
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04/05/2010
FARMERS in North and mid Wales were paid £700,000 last year in compensation by defence chiefs for damage to livestock caused by low-flying military aircraft.
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