January 06, 2015 Military Aviation News
01/06/2015
An Israeli air force squadron equipped with Alenia Aermacchi M-346 "Lavi" advanced jet trainers is close to being declared operational, having already received nine aircraft from an eventual 30-strong fleet. Israel's first M-346 landed at Hazerim air base in the south of the country last July, and deliveries are continuing on schedule.
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01/06/2015
Even after over a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s armed services field incompatible aviation technology that hinders battlefield communication between U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps combat aircraft. The Pentagon is making an effort to fix the problem, but whether it will succeed is an open question.
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01/06/2015
The Indian Air Force is struggling to fill its hangers with good quality fighter planes made in India as indigenous efforts for the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) conceived more than three decades ago are yet to make it to service standards. This, in a country whose ancient scientists had conceived workable fighter planes thousands of years ago.
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01/06/2015
The United States has asked Spain to grant permanent status for the deployment of US troops at the joint-use Morón Air Base in Spanish Andalusia, El Pais said Monday, citing a letter from US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. According to the newspaper, Hagel wrote a letter to Spanish authorities proposing to introduce changes to the 1988 Agreement on Defense Cooperation between the US and Spain in order to “turn Morón de la Frontera into a permanent base for responding on crises in Africa.”
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01/06/2015
No violations of Russian airspace have been registered in the past year, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Klimov said Saturday. “In 2014… no violations of state borders by foreign aircraft or breach of air rules by domestic users were registered,” Klimov stated.
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