April 30, 2012 Military Aviation News
04/30/2012
In the backdrop of the menace posed by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, India today said it was determined to work with Seychelles to ensure a secure environment for the benefit of the two countries. President Pratibha Patil, who arrived here to a warm welcome for a two-day state visit, said "India and Seychelles share the waters of the Indian ocean".
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04/30/2012
This is a story of buried treasure, a map with X marking the spot and the race to recover untold riches. The treasure in this case is of the winged variety, some 60 Spitfires fighter aircraft, maybe more, quite possibly in pristine condition, never flown in anger, interred in Burma at the end of the Second World War. There are only three dozen Spits in flying condition around the world, commanding prices of $2 million or more. So this is big money.
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04/30/2012
Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations has defended his country's right to use air strikes against South Sudanese troops who Khartoum says are inside Sudanese territory. Dafallah ElHaj Ali Osman, however, stopped short of saying whether Sudan had carried out the air strikes over the past few weeks that Juba claims Khartoum had launched on its territories.
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04/30/2012
A prominent Iranian lawmaker says the reported basing of America's most sophisticated stealth jet fighters in the United Arab Emirates is a U.S.-Israel plot to create regional instability. The U.S. Air Force has moved several F-22 stealth combat aircraft to a base in the United Arab Emirates, 300 km (186) miles from the Iranian border, according to a report by the Aviation Report magazine on Saturday.
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04/30/2012
Two White House announcements last week illustrate the larger story. Some 9,000 U.S. Marines will leave Okinawa, with 2,500 of them to head to Australia on six-month rotations and most of the rest to be based in Guam and Hawaii. And in a letter to Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, White House official Robert Nabors promised that the Administration will give "serious consideration" to selling 66 new F-16 fighters to Taiwan.
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