November 26, 2024 Military Aviation News
11/26/2024
The Ministry of National Defense tracked 12 Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels, and one official ship around Taiwan between 6 a.m. on Sunday (Nov. 24) and 6 a.m. on Monday. Of the 12 People’s Liberation Army aircraft, eight crossed the Taiwan Strait median line in the nation’s southwestern air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to the MND.
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11/26/2024
Canada has identified L3Harris MAS from Mirabel, Que., as its strategic partner to work with the Canadian government and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) to investigate requirements for an F-35 airframe depot. This partnership will provide a means to progress timely discussions, including on the scope and costs associated with setting up and operating such a facility, and on how to best position Canada to demonstrate best value, to secure future opportunities in the F-35 enterprise.
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11/26/2024
The US military has announced the first official combat use of its F-35C Lightning II fighter aircraft, targeting Houthi positions in Yemen. The fifth-generation aircraft was deployed by the US Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) earlier this month to strike weapons storage facilities, which housed anti-ship missiles used to target military and cargo vessels in the Red Sea.
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11/26/2024
The tensions between Russia and NATO have reached a tipping point, with the Western allies now discussing their next course of action against Moscow. In the wake of this chaos, it has been nine years since a NATO country shot down a Russian fighter jet for the first time on November 24. The incident goes back to 2015, when tensions were running high between Russia and Turkey, a NATO state, due to the alleged repeated violations of Turkish airspace by Russian warplanes.
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11/26/2024
Elon Musk is tearing into the F-35, the most expensive weapons program in history and a favorite of his new best friend, President-elect Donald Trump. In a series of posts on X, the world’s richest man and proponent of driverless cars targeted the tri-service fighter jet program while coming out in favor of uncrewed aircraft.
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