December 24, 2012 Military Aviation News
12/24/2012
The third in line to the throne has been serving as the gunner and navigator in an Apache attack helicopter for the Army Air Corps in Afghanistan since September. He is thought to have made his first “kill” a few weeks after arriving.
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12/24/2012
Is the Assad regime near the end of its road in Syria? The television network Al Jazeera is quoting Syrian opposition activists that are claiming that seven people were killed in the Homs area due to the dispersal of gas by the Syrian military. According to the reports, dozens were hurt from inhaling the gas in the Al Bidiya neighborhood in Homs, and suffered from nausea, muscular weakness, blurred vision and breathing difficulties.
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12/24/2012
Last year the large U.S. Air Force UAVs, (MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, and RQ-4 Global Hawk) had an accident rate of 3.8 per 100,000 hours. This accident rate is currently lower than that of the F-16, which is currently one of the safest manned fighter aircraft flying. Last year these air force UAVs had 13 "Class A" accidents (one causing over a two million dollars of loss).
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12/24/2012
Ahead of the visit of President Vladimir Putin, India and Russia have signed a deal for working together to develop the air-launched version of the 290-km-range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which would be fitted to the Su-30MKI combat aircraft of the IAF.
An agreement was signed between BrahMos Aerospace, Russian Rosoboron export and Sukhoi Design Bureau for developing the air-launched version of the missile here on
Friday, Defence Ministry officials said here.
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12/24/2012
The nomination of Senator John Kerry as the new U.S. secretary of state has been warmly received by China, but the state-run news media on the mainland has sharply attacked the passage of a new military spending bill that is awaiting President Obama’s signature.
Two amendments to the $633 billion bill have drawn particular scorn from Beijing, which has unleashed a series of scathing articles and editorials in the state-run news media.
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12/24/2012
Russian military advisers are manning some of Syria's more sophisticated air defences – something that would complicate any future US-led intervention, the Guardian has learned.
The advisers have been deployed with new surface-to-air systems and upgrades of old systems, which Moscow has supplied to the Assad regime since the Syrian revolution broke out 21 months ago.
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12/24/2012
Last week, the Harper government released a report by audit firm KPMG, which sought to ascertain how much it would cost to procure and operate a fleet of 65 F-35 fighter jets. KPMG calculated the total bill over 42 years, the warplane’s expected lifespan in Canadian service, to be $45.8-billion, which works out to an average annual expense of almost $1.1-billion.
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12/24/2012
Russia and India signed new weapons deals worth billions of dollars Monday as President Vladimir Putin sought to further boost ties with an old ally. Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hailed cooperation between their countries as officials signed a $1.6 billion deal for India to purchase 42 Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets and a $1.3 billion contract for the delivery of 71 Mil Mi-17 military helicopters.
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12/24/2012
BAE Systems has bagged a £2.5bn military aircraft contract from Oman, securing jobs of its 6,000 employees which were jeopardised by the debacle of £25bn merger with European defence giant EADS. BAE Systems will manufacture Typhoon and Hawk military aircraft for Oman in a strategic effort to look out for other growing markets.
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