April 24, 2012 Military Aviation News
04/24/2012
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, has made public its best guess about what might have caused its unmanned arrowhead-shaped Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) to suddenly lose contact and crash in the Pacific just a few minutes after slicing through the sky at Mach 20 last August: it was going so fast its skin peeled off.
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04/24/2012
Rolls-Royce, the turbine and engine maker, has signed a contract worth up to $598m to supply engines for the US Marine Corps and Air Force’s V-22 tilt rotor aircraft. Under the terms of the contract UK Rolls-Royce will deliver 70 of the 268 AE 1107C engines in the first year, with the rest of the batch being part of an optional addition over four more years.
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04/24/2012
Boeing must perform on the new KC-46 tanker programme, the US Air Force is warning the company as the aircraft enters its preliminary design review (PDR). Otherwise the service could walk away. "We could buy more KC-46s or - make no mistake about it - if Boeing doesn't perform, we'll just start another competition," says Maj Gen Christopher Bogdan, the USAF's KC-46 programme executive officer.
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04/24/2012
AgustaWestland company, is pleased to announce the new generation AW149 military helicopter’s outstanding capabilities have officially been presented to a number of national and local dignitaries at Warsaw-Babice Airport.
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04/24/2012
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday dismissed Tehran's claims that it has recovered data from a U.S. spy drone that went down in Iran late last year. Panetta declined to provide any details, but said that "based on my experience ... I would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done."
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04/24/2012
In an awesome show of strength, The Seymour Johnson Air Force Base's 4th Fighter Wing launched 70 F-15E Strike Eagles in a training mission to destroy more than 1,000 targets on bombing ranges across North Carolina. The exercise marks the 67th anniversary of the unit's predecessor gaining the milestone of a thousand 'kills' during World War II.
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04/24/2012
Sudanese war planes bombed a market in the capital of South Sudan's oil-producing Unity State on Monday, residents and officials said, an attack the southern army called a declaration of war. Sudan denied carrying out any air raids but its President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ramped up the political tension by ruling out a return to negotiations with the South, saying its government only understood "the language of the gun".
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04/24/2012
Russia’s defense electronics are up to 12 years behind foreign analogs, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday. “The technical level of electronics used in the development and manufacture of military hardware and equipment…is five to 12 years behind that in other countries,” he said. Microelectronics production in Russia is low scale and loss making, and needs government support, he said.
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04/24/2012
The Turkish Air Force has begun training for the acceptance of its new fleet of airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems from US manufacturer Boeing. The Seattle-based company has launched a training programme specifically designed to meet the individual requirements of the Turkish programme which will see the first aircraft – based on the 737 platform – being handed over later this year.
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