May 12, 2012 Military Aviation News
05/12/2012
The South Korean military is on a shopping spree this year. And the biggest deal of all – approximately 60 new fighter jets – is nearing the bidding deadline. South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration is aiming to sign contracts on about 14 trillion won ($12.2 billion) worth of new equipment and weapons this year. It’s a record amount and a priority for President Lee Myung-bak during his last year in office.
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05/12/2012
The "Pomor" 2012 edition started today May 11 2012. The drill involves Russia and Norway fast fleets and a large combat aircraft and combat helicopter air fleet. The five-day exercises will be held in the Barents and Norwegian seas. It should be noted that the Russian-Norwegian agreement on delimiting the sea border and cooperation in the Barent Sea and the Arctic Ocean came into force only in July 2011 after more than 40 years of negotiations.
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05/12/2012
Israel's security establishment will continue to develop hardware and tactics to contend with developing threats on the other side. But without agreement on a long-term strategy at the political level, it will be hard to sustain a defense.
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05/12/2012
The Air Force's outgoing chief, Gen. Norton Schwartz, had to clean up a mess left by Gen. Michael Moseley when the service lost track of six nuclear warheads. The Air Force has since gotten its nuclear house in order, but Welsh will take the baton at a time when the Air Force is in the middle of a budgetary food fight between its active component, Congress and its Guard and Reserves.
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05/12/2012
The South African Air Force yesterday held its live fire Air Capability Demonstration at the Roodewal bombing range outside Polokwane, successfully demonstrating its various abilities. The Air Force is busy preparing for Exercise Savannah Thunder, which will use many of the same aircraft deployed for the Demonstration.
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05/12/2012
Although American warriors have returned from Iraq and many are re- turning from Afghanistan, our nation still faces serious and continuing security threats. The return - and painful loss - of U.S. combat troops should serve as a reminder that as a nation, we have a solemn duty to provide our military professionals with the best tools available to accomplish their missions at the lowest possible loss of life. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter falls squarely into that category.
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05/12/2012
The Munich crisis was the occasion when the Western powers agreed to Adolf Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister, hailed the Munich Agreement as securing "peace in our time". It is an infamous moment in the 20th century, a moment that symbolised the guilty slumber of fecklessness in the 1930s, and the near-criminal neglect of defence capabilities among the Allied nations.
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05/12/2012
American research into hypersonic weapons, which the U.S. aims to complete by 2015, represents an especially serious threat to Russia, acting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. "This breakthrough decision by the U.S. opens up for them the prospect of a transition from a demonstrator prototype to creation of a multirole hypersonic missile by 2015-2018," Rogozin said during a visit to the Raduga "Bereznyak" state-owned missile design bureau at Dubna in the Moscow Region.
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