July 18, 2011 Military Aviation News
07/18/2011
Since early May, pilots at Langley Air Force Base have been living life at less than supersonic speeds. The Air Force ordered a stand-down of its F-22 Raptor fleet on May 3 after reports of potential malfunctions in the oxygen system. The investigation has since expanded to include all aspects of the aircraft, according to Air Combat Command, which is headquartered at Langley.
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07/18/2011
Somebody should get the AVIC and CATIC marketing staffs back on the same page. I realized yesterday that I had picked up two different product cards in the exhibit halls of the Paris Air Show for the JF-17 Thunder, the low-cost, multi-role, Chinese-Pakistani collaboration.
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07/18/2011
France recently announced that it has been spending about $2.5 million a day for operations in Libya. France and Britain are the largest contributors, in terms of warplanes, to the Libya operation. But the U.S. is still contributing most of the aircraft, except that most of these are support (intelligence, electronic warfare, refueling and transport).
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07/18/2011
Noting that there was a “mismatch” between Indian procurement requirements and the American license regime, the US business chambers has strongly pitched for finding “breakdown” in these procedures and also recommended issuance of a list of “pre-approved” technologies by the US to India.
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07/18/2011
NATO aircraft have carried out a "major strike" today on a military depot at Tajura, north-east of Tripoli, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said.
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07/18/2011
It is rare for two serving Air Force chiefs to concur, but in an appraisal of the Eurofighter Typhoon, one of the two contenders for a multi-billion dollar Indian Air Force tender, they unanimously voted it as very reliable as seen in the operations against Libya.
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07/18/2011
One of the fastest helicopter prototypes ever developed, the Sikorsky X2 technology demonstrator, is being retired after making its final flight last Thursday. The X2 has served its purpose, and the technological lessons learned from the prototype are blending into the Sikorsky S-97 Raider helicopter program, which Sikorsky will propose for the U.S. Army's future Armed Aerial Scout program.
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07/18/2011
TechNewsDaily was recently invited to take a rare behind-the-scenes tour of a UAS ground control station in Italy that is jointly shared by the Italian and U.S. air forces to demystify some of the operations of these robot warrior aircraft.
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