December 28, 2011 Military Aviation News
12/28/2011
The IAF has inducted its sixth C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft procured from the US at the Hindon air base near here. This is the last of the six C-130J Super Hercules ordered by India under the US Foreign Military Sales program, IAF officials said.
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12/28/2011
Swedish defense and security company Saab recently received two orders worth a combined total $36.7 million. The first, from the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration, is for continuous support of the operational capacity of the Gripen jet fighter. Gripen is a single-engine, multi-role aircraft. It comes in four variants and is used by Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Thailand and South Africa. It has a maximum speed of 1,372 mph at altitude.
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12/28/2011
Two months ago, the U.S. MQ-1 Predator UAV fleet hit a million hours in the air. Over 20 percent of those hours were flown this year. The Predator replacement, the MQ-9 reaper has flown nearly 250,000 hours so far. America's large UAVs (MQ-1, MQ-1C, MQ-9, RQ-4 and RQ-170) flew some 400,000 hours this year.
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12/28/2011
India's quest to modernise its armed forces into a lean, mean fighting machine continued in 2011, with a few critical deals materialising and several others facing time overruns. During the past 12 months, India finalised the purchase of some important military equipment, such as 10 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III heavylift cargo planes from the US and the upgrade of 51 Mirage-2000 combat planes initially by the French manufacturer and later in India.
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12/28/2011
Aircraft manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft Corp. filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims after it was excluded from an Air Force contest to supply a small number of attack planes to Afghanistan and other allies.
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12/28/2011
Venezuela became the largest importer of Russian arms for ground forces in 2011, the Moscow based Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT) said on Tuesday. Russia delivered a large consignment of arms to Venezuela under contracts signed in 2009 and 2010, CAWAT head Igor Korotchenko said without offering any figures.
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