June 16, 2011 Military Aviation News
06/16/2011
bout 1,000 airmen are visiting Eielson Air Force Base this week for this year’s Northern Edge exercise. Airmen and service members from the Army, Navy and Marines are participating in the biennial exercise to train for potential crises in the Asia-Pacific region. The exercise began Monday and runs through June 24.
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06/16/2011
India is set to decide on possibly the world's biggest combat aircraft deal of this decade as well as those for new combat, utility and heavy-lift helicopters within the next few weeks or months, but all within 2011.
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06/16/2011
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he'd rather have a smaller "superbly capable" military than a hollow force. Secretary Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee June 15 that even as the department looks for savings, there has to be an admission that reductions will increase risks.
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06/16/2011
Europe’s biggest defense contractor, BAE Systems, has pulled out of the race for a 1.45 billion zloty ($530.5 million) contract to supply Poland with 16 training-combat aircraft, the company said June 14.
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06/16/2011
Strategic considerations played no part whatsoever in India’s down-selection of the EADS Eurofighter and the Dassault Rafale for its lucrative medium multirole combat fighter aircraft (MMRCA) competition. So argues Ashley J. Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in a fascinating analysis that runs counter to many other assessments of the Indian decision, which beggared American belief for its rejection of the two US entrants in spite of the increasingly close ties between Wash
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06/16/2011
Near the coast of southwest Iceland, miles from the snow-covered volcanoes that made media attention twice since early 2010, is the former Keflavik Naval Air Station - the location used for NATO's Northern Viking 2011 training exercise.
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06/16/2011
Boeing today announced that India’s Ministry of Defence has signed an agreement with the U.S. government to acquire 10 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III airlifters. The Foreign Military Sale -- approved by the U.S. Congress in May 2010 -- establishes India as the C-17's largest international customer. According to the agreement, India will take delivery of its C-17s in 2013 and 2014.
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