November 19, 2015 Military Aviation News
11/19/2015
Russia has intensified all types of intelligence in the Middle East region, including space reconnaissance, the head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Col. Gen. Andrey Kartapolov, said Wednesday.
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11/19/2015
While Canada’s newly elected leader is seriously considering pulling that nation out of the global partnership building the F-35 joint strike fighter, the action is not expected to slow down the production ramp-up underway at the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth.
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11/19/2015
The US Marine Corps' (USMC) MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft are set to extend support to a series of US / UK exercises from the flightdeck of HMS Ocean. During the amphibious assault training in the Mediterranean, an Osprey detachment will be based on the Royal Navy flagship for several weeks to transport US and Royal Marines from ship to shore.
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11/19/2015
An Air Force Special Operations AC-130J Ghostrider plane valued at $115 million will be scrapped due to a “mishap” that occurred during a test flight earlier this year, the military announced this month.
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11/19/2015
Whatever Islamic State made of Vladimir Putin’s order to the Russian navy to treat French forces “as allies” in the waters off Syria, it will have sent a shiver through at least a couple of Paris’s allies. Russia’s president gave the command on Tuesday, as he and his French counterpart pledged separately to crush a terror group that claims to have launched Friday’s attacks in Paris and downed a Russian airliner over Egypt two weeks earlier.
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11/19/2015
The Russian Armed Forces will organize joint military operations with the French Navy to combat terrorists in Syria, chief of the main operations directorate of Russian army’s General Staff Andrey Kartapolov said on Wednesday.
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11/19/2015
It is, to say the least, an awkward situation: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new Liberal government is committed to pulling Canadian jet fighters out of combat against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, just as the attacks on Paris have prompted French President François Hollande to urge much greater international co-operation to fight the terrorists.
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11/19/2015
The United States has authorized an $80 million sale of Bell helicopters and related equipment and parts to Argentina, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a release on Wednesday.
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11/19/2015
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will be ready to begin its operation against ISIL radicals before the end of the week.
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