April 23, 2011 Military Aviation News
04/23/2011
Libyan rebels said Saturday afternoon that they now fully controlled the key city of Misrata. The United States launched its first Predator drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Defense Department said in a statement. It did not provide details on the target of the strike, saying only that it occurred in the early afternoon local time in Libya, according to Reuters.
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04/23/2011
It's fairly common for lazy journalists to invoke comparisons with Hollywood movies when discussing complicated scientific issues. But when an internal Ministry of Defence report warns that the increasing usage of unmanned drones in war is part of an "incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality" it makes the world sit up and take notice.
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04/23/2011
The Russian Sukhoi-35 fighter jet will be taking part in a new Brazilian Air Force tender for the purchase of a large batch of multifunctional combat aircraft, a source in the Brazilian defence-industrial complex said to the RIAN news agency.
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04/23/2011
The Pentagon is planning to move a number of armed drone aircraft to its Pacific Command force from where they could be used in part to support Taiwan’s security and guard against a surprise attack by China. Equipped with state-of-the-art surveillance cameras, the Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) would monitor China’s military buildup and North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.
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04/23/2011
Air Force and Boeing Company officials met for the KC-46A program post-award conference recently to discuss program specifics, including a technical overview of the program.
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04/23/2011
The first Combat Shadow II for the United States Air Force Special Operations Command has completed its first flight at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta. Less than one month after a rollout ceremony for the aircraft’s AFSOC customer the MC-130J has begun a series of flight tests prior to delivery to Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., in September.
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