January 06, 2012 Military Aviation News
01/06/2012
President Barack Obama's military strategy calls for development of a new long-range stealth bomber even as the Pentagon seeks about $490 billion in reductions in the next decade. The bomber is part of the administration's goal to have weapons that are able to reach areas far from bases and where "our access and freedom to operate are challenged," according to Obama's updated defense strategy released today.
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01/06/2012
The Czech Republic and several other Eastern European countries have all expressed interest in buying “almost new” Eurofighter military aircraft from Germany, Financial Times Deutschland, the local version of the UK business daily, reported on Thursday, with Berlin looking to offload eight planes, which, if new, would cost some €60 million to €80 million each.
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01/06/2012
Now China is engaged in a major military buildup. Part of its plan is to force U.S. carriers to stay farther away from its shores, Chinese military analysts say. So the U.S. is adjusting its own game plan. Without either nation saying so, both are quietly engaged in a tit-for-tat military-technology race.
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01/06/2012
The US today said the last batch of new F-16 jets purchased by Pakistan is scheduled to start arriving in the country later this month and contended that there had been no stoppage in its programme to supply the combat aircraft to Islamabad. A statement issued by the US Embassy described reports in a section of the media about a stoppage in the US-Pakistan F-16 programme as "not accurate".
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01/06/2012
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma began building for the future in 2011, in preparation for the arrival of the new vertical takeoff F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, which will begin arriving in phases starting in September 2012. It was also another busy year for deployments, with all four of the air station's squadrons either deployed to Afghanistan or serving overseas with various Marine Expeditionary Units. In all, about 900 Marines were deployed last year.
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01/06/2012
The U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled on Thursday a new defense strategy that seeks to cut the country’s armed forces as a part of major cuts to the U.S. defense budget by almost $500 billion, RIA Novosti reported. "Our military will be leaner but the world must know – the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with Armed Forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats," Obama told a press conference at the Pentagon.
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01/06/2012
IAF has 51 Mirage aircraft acquired from France beginning 1985, and the Government cleared a $ 2.4 deal in July 2011 with the French firms Dassault and Thales to modernize them with newer generation avionics, Electronic Warfare (EW) suites, and advanced beyond visual range (BVR) capability. The weapons package was separate, and has been cleared now.
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