May 18, 2010 Military Aviation News
05/18/2010
Airbus Military has for the first time demonstrated in flight “buddy” refuelling between two A330 MRTT aircraft.
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05/18/2010
Today, the U.S. military may be wrestling with a similar challenge. In the bureaucratic blink of an eye, it's become a dominant power in the potentially game-changing field of military robotics.
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05/18/2010
The process of finding a suitable replacement for the aging fleet of tanker aircraft in use by the Air Force and other branches of the U.S. military has reached comical proportions. Each time one of the two bidding firms nears a win for the massive contract, the other appeals or threatens to withdraw from the competition.
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05/18/2010
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday criticised Russia for supplying arms to Syria, saying the move did not help efforts to bring peace to the region.
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05/18/2010
In a letter to President Obama, 136 members of Congress are urging quick action to sell F-16 C/D fighter jets to Taiwan. China, Taiwan's hostile neighbor, has long been equipped with more and better fighter jets than Taiwan.
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05/18/2010
India's trade ministry has suggested almost tripling the foreign direct investment cap on defence equipment to 74 percent, a major policy change that would crowd many local companies out of the lucrative sector.
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05/18/2010
I spent this last week travelling in the US at the invitation of The Boeing Company’s defence arm, Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS). I visited Boeing’s rotorcraft facilities in Philadelphia; a US Navy aircraft carrier (USS Harry S Truman) and naval air base (Oceana) in Norfolk, Virginia; Boeing’s space division in Florida; and its C-17 transport aircraft plant in California. With the US-India defence relationship on a high-growth trajectory, here are my perceptions on what India is dealing
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05/18/2010
Two Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters flew nonstop from their final-assembly site in Fort Worth, Texas, to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., today, signaling a further expansion of F-35 flight test operations.
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