April 16, 2012 Military Aviation News
04/16/2012
Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday won a US$259mil contract adding two more F-35 fighter jets to a fifth batch of jets being purchased by the US military, boosting the size of that order to 32 jets, the Pentagon and Lockheed officials said.
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04/16/2012
THE Royal Malaysian Air Force got a look at its future military transport capabilities yesterday when an Airbus A400M aircraft landed at the Subang air base for the first time. The plane - Grizzly 4 - is one of five developmental A400M aircraft and is on a tour of customer countries. It will be in Malaysia, its first Asian stop, for four days.
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04/16/2012
A massive military exercise involving troops from across Europe and North America is set to get under way. Joint Warrior will see warships, submarines and aircraft take to the west coast of Scotland for a two-week training exercise. The exercise is held twice a year to prepare forces from the UK, US, Denmark, Norway, France, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands for events and active service.
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04/16/2012
With reports of China and Russia trying to slip into the Pentagon’s information networks on a daily basis, U.S. security experts now rank the military threat from cyberspace just behind terrorism and nuclear proliferation. In that atmosphere, the people whose domain has been the cubicle and the computer room are getting a chance to be recognized as “warriors,” on par with those who shoot guns and fly fighter jets.
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04/16/2012
Along with the ICBM, it was one of the defining pieces of military technology during the Cold War: the B-52 bomber. Those who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s knew the B-52 Stratofortress as a central figure in the anxiety that flowed from the protracted staring match between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. On the one hand, it was reassuring to know that the Strategic Air Command was ready at a moment's notice to scramble its B-52s to counter any potential nuclear attack.
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