October 24, 2015 Military Aviation News
10/24/2015
For the first time in 25 years, the U.S. Air Force is starting up five squadrons to increase its nuclear monitoring capabilities, and the units are likely to survey North Korea and Iran. The Air Force Technical Applications Center, or AFTAC, which operates under the U.S. Air Combat Command, is the "sole organization in the federal government whose mission is to detect and report technical data from foreign nuclear explosions," the Military Times reported on Thursday.
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10/24/2015
Five Apache helicopters have been removed from Johnstown National Guard hangars and reassigned to active duty Army units. The remaining 11 Apaches stationed at the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport facility are scheduled for reassignment by May 31. President Barack Obama vetoed a bill Thursday that included an amendment to delay the May action for at least a month.
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10/24/2015
Presiding over a ceremony mourning the loss of his country’s top commander in Syria, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Deqhan vowed the total extermination of the Sunni Muslim rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. “We are witnessing the start of new developments in Syria (that) will pave the way for the full annihilation of the Takfiri groups,” Deqhan declared at the Oct. 14 memorial for the late Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamadani, according to the semi-official FARS news agency.
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10/24/2015
In a significant breakthrough, India and France reached an understanding on the offsets segment of the $4.5 billion (Rs 30,000-crore) Rafale deal on 21 October under which the French agreed to invest 50 per cent of the 36-aircraft Rafale fighter deal's worth in related sectors. But the development, being cited as oxygen for the Indian Air Force, seems to have overlooked one point.
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10/24/2015
The 4th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron hosted members of the 16th Electronic Warfare Squadron from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, during Combat Shield, Oct. 19-23. Combat Shield is an annual program aimed to provide operational combat Air Force units in Air Combat Command, a system-specific capability assessment for their aircraft’s radar warning receivers, electronic attack pods and integrated EW systems.
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10/24/2015
The first death in four years of an American service member under enemy fire in Iraq is raising questions about the nature of the U.S. commitment there and whether the administration is correct to claim that it's not engaged in a combat role.
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10/24/2015
An F18 fighter jet pilot has died after ejecting moments before the aircraft crashed near the RAF Lakenheath base in Suffolk. The crash is believed to have happened five miles north west of the airfield at around 10.30am. Cambridgeshire Constabulary confirmed officers at the scene are dealing with one fatality. The US jet was one of six returning from combat operations in the Middle East.
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10/24/2015
Technology creates new capabilities and that affect the role of some forces including that of the Israeli Air Force (IAF). While the IAF has and will have a crucial role in the task of protecting Israel’s security with some missions that it has performed solely, there is a quiet fight in the Israeli defence establishment to re-define some of the combat missions.
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10/24/2015
A recent study release by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) claims that the United States has made a huge strategic mistake in how the Navy has composed its air wings. But what the study does not mention is probably more important than what they say.
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