September 05, 2015 Military Aviation News
09/05/2015
For what appears to be an entire sortie, a Canadian warplane broadcast its flight location while flying over so-called Islamic State (IS) controlled territory. The revelation regarding a refueling plane flying as part of Operation IMPACT in Iraq, comes from civilian website Flightradar24.com — a collective of thousands of volunteer antenna networks all over the world streamlining location data of planes using something called automatic dependent surveillance-broadcasts (ADS-B).
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09/05/2015
Unverified images appeared showing aircraft similar to Russian Yakovlev jets above the war-torn nation – sparking speculation Russia was about to carry out airstrikes against ISIS targets. It came after the jihadist regime claimed it carried out a deadly car bomb attack on a Russian military headquarters in Dagestan.
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09/05/2015
The increased frequency of military air and sea encounters between NATO and NATO partner states and the Russian Federation is a serious cause for concern among policy makers, but relatively little has been done to practically address this issue.
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09/05/2015
China now has better information and electronic warfare capabilities as the People's Liberation Army has deployed some of the world's most advanced support aircraft, an aviation analyst said.
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09/05/2015
With a contract announcement imminent, new details about the US Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber have emerged that paint the classified project as being less exotic and probably more affordable than previously imagined.
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09/05/2015
Two of the US Air Force's most advanced planes, F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, made a landmark visit to Estonia Friday, the first time the state-of-the-art aircraft have visited former Soviet territory. The visit comes as tensions are running high with neighbouring Russia over its role in the conflict in Ukraine.
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09/05/2015
Forty-five troops from the United Arab Emirates were killed in Yemen while taking part in Saudi-led operations against Houthi rebels, the Gulf nation said Friday, in the deadliest day for its military in its 44-year history. The UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said the troops were killed when a missile struck an ammunition depot. On his official Twitter feed, he said the "cowardly attack will not deter us."
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09/05/2015
The Pentagon is monitoring a scenario with ominous implications: the prospect of American and Russian warplanes fighting on opposite sides in the skies over Syria. In a development that caught U.S. intelligence by surprise, Russia has set up an air traffic control tower and modular housing units for hundreds of personnel at an airfield near Syria's Mediterranean port of Latikia.
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09/05/2015
Last week, the Belarusian army newspaper Vo Slavu Rodiny published an article praising the newly received Russian warplanes. However, these Russian aircraft are a step backward compared to the equipment that Belarus already had. President Lukashenka recently publicly complained that the Kremlin had refused to give Belarus a dozen aircraft. The Belarusian authorities therefore are delaying the establishment of a Russian airbase in Belarus.
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