March 23, 2012 Military Aviation News
03/23/2012
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and President of the IRKUT Corporation Alexey Fedorov, have signed a contract on Su-30SM multirole fighters delivery for the Russian Armed Forces. Under the contract, the IRKUT Corporation will supply to the Defence Ministry 30 aircraft of this type by 2015.
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03/23/2012
The actions of a Missouri senator effectively have killed any chances of a new round of domestic military base closures next year. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday she will kill any plan to set in motion another Base Realignment and Closure round in 2013.
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03/23/2012
France's Dassault Aviation on Thursday posted a 10 percent rise in net profit to USD 536 million and expressed confidence about foreign sales of its Rafale fighter plane. "Concerning military aircraft, there are decisive opportunities ... concerning the Rafale and drones," the company said in presenting its 2011 results.
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03/23/2012
Analysts at Forecast International are predicting a downturn in the military helicopter market that will last for several years. The consulting company, which is based in Newtown, Connecticut, says that 4,384 medium- to heavy-lift military rotorcraft worth $104 billion will be built during the next 10 years.
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03/23/2012
Indian officials are preoccupied by China’s growing military power. They would do better to fix their own incoherent defense establishment. Modern India is economically and strategically buoyant, and has every reason to feel confident as the 21st century progresses. So it’s strange to think that this same confident place is developing an inferiority complex over China’s military power.
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03/23/2012
Some modernization programs may be delayed, but not reduced or cancelled due to a tightening of the budget, senior Army leaders told senators Wednesday. Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno testified Wednesday morning to the Senate Appropriations Committee, subcommittee on Defense regarding the service's fiscal year 2013 budget request.
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03/23/2012
The projects are part of the European Union's efforts to pool and share military resources as the debt crisis and a US strategic pivot towards Asia forces Europe's armed forces to band together. The ministers, who met in Brussels, emphasized in a statement "the urgent political necessity to retain and develop the military capabilities for sustaining and enhancing" their common security policy.
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03/23/2012
The U.S. military is investigating whether an attack helicopter pilot was “showing off” when he made a low pass over a remote Afghan outpost and then slammed violently into the ground, according to a defense official. The dramatic crash was captured on amateur eyewitness video, which recently surfaced online.
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03/23/2012
Proposals for the development of weaponry based on futuristic concepts will be ready by December this year to be included in the next state arms procurement program, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Thursday. “The development of weaponry based on new physics principles; direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons, psychotronic weapons, etc..
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