October 23, 2022 Military Aviation News

Russian Su-30 SM Fighter Jet Scores A ‘Kill’ Against Ukrainian Aircraft During Swing Role Ops; MOD Shares Video

10/23/2022

The video shows two Su-30SM fighters taxiing out and then taking off in swing-role configuration carrying wingtip mounted electronic warfare (EW) pods, two RVV-MD close combat missiles, two RVV-SD medium-range missiles, and two Kh-29 air-to-surface missiles. n swing role configuration, a fighter has the weapons and the software to execute air-to-air and air-to-ground attacks during the same mission.

Flying just outside Ukraine, NATO's sentinel planes warn of Russia's battlefield moves

10/23/2022

As the military pilots on board one of NATO's airborne warning and command planes skirt just inside Poland's border with Ukraine, the real action is happening metres behind them. Surveillance operators and weapons controllers crowd around one of the multitude of radar screens peering deep inside wartime Ukraine.

Margarita Robles quietly finalises the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the US

10/23/2022

A small cell of the highest confidence of the Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, has already finalised negotiations with the US Department of Defence and the Lockheed Martin industrial corporation for the purchase of the F-35, the fifth-generation stealth fighter of which more than 840 aircraft are already flying in the air forces of 17 nations.

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