November 27, 2024 Military Aviation News
11/27/2024
A US military patrol plane flew over politically sensitive waters separating China and Taiwan on Tuesday, as the US seeks to reinforce the airspace as international. The US and its allies regularly cross through the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait, either by ship or aircraft, angering Beijing. China considers Taiwan to be part of its territory and claims jurisdiction over the body of water separating the two.
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11/27/2024
The US has proposed a deal to supply F-16 Fighting Falcons as replacements for the Colombian Air Force’s Israeli-made Kfir combat aircraft. The potential deal stipulates up to eight of the Lockheed Martin jets and could cost around 2.5 billion Colombian pesos ($566.4 million), according to Bogotá-based news agency Blu Radio.
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11/27/2024
China is cutting down on the time it takes to train raw students to be fighter pilots and transitioning to a full fleet of fourth-generation training aircraft—but won’t have a fully modernized pilot training system until 2030, according to a new paper from Air University’s China Aerospace Studies Institute.
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