June 21, 2011 Military Aviation News
06/21/2011
Radar and missiles major Raytheon has enhanced its presence in India with multiple tie-ups with Indian industry, and has announced that its weapons are capable of being integrated on both of the finalists' aircraft in India's medium multi-role combat aircraft competition. The final two shortlisted for MMRCA are Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale.
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06/21/2011
French aviation firm optimistic about selling multi-dimensional fighter jet to UAE, India and Brazil.
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06/21/2011
Weaponizing crop dusters . . . yeah I know I wish I'd thought of it too, but engineers at Moog Aerospace and Air Tractor beat us to it when they added weapons to the Air Tractor AT-802U single engine turboprop aircraft. No longer spraying chemicals, this lethal aircraft now has precision strike capability with bombs and guns. It is part of the static display at the Paris Air Show this week.
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06/21/2011
Northrop Grumman international head John Brooks speaks in slow, measured tones. His carefully spoken insights reflect a thoughtful, probing intellect - decades of experience in the defence industry. For nearly 30 years Brooks served in the US Air Force, rising to the rank of major general, with experience flying in the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules and C-141 Starlifter.
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06/21/2011
Nato has admitted civilians were killed during an air strike in Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning in the first acknowledged civilian casualties caused by the alliance during the three-month bombing campaign.
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06/21/2011
The first of four C-130J Super Hercules for the Qatar Emiri Air Force took to the skies over the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Ga., June 8.
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06/21/2011
ockheed Martin announced a new website for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft at the Paris Air Show today. The site, http://www.f35.com, provides the most up-to-date information on the F-35 program, including history, program updates, news, photos and videos.
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06/21/2011
Lockheed Martin announced an update to its media briefing schedule for the 2011 Paris Air Show. These events will underscore Lockheed Martin's commitment to meeting our customers' needs in the new reality of increasing global security challenges and affordability requirements.
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06/21/2011
China's fifth-generation fighter program is more for effect than substance, Russia's leading aircraft maker said on Monday.
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06/21/2011
European manufacturer Airbus' hopes of wooing international customers with displays from its military and civil flagship aircraft were hit by a double blow.
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