December, 2024 Military Aviation News
12/04/2024
Norway will assume responsibility under NATO to safeguard the airspace of Poland's Rzeszów airport and will send 100 soldiers, air defence systems and F-35 fighter jets to do so, the Norwegian defence minister announced on Monday. The airport, some 100 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, is central to the transport of military goods. Various NATO allies are taking turns in providing Poland with air protection, Defence Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said in a statement.
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12/04/2024
Pakistan is reportedly moving forward with a major upgrade to its air power capabilities, clearing the path for the acquisition of China’s J-35, a cutting-edge fifth-generation stealth fighter. According to Indian defense outlet idrw.org, citing 24 News HD, the decision was finalized shortly after the J-35’s debut at the Zhuhai Airshow in southern China. Russian media outlets have also begun to amplify the news, further fueling speculation about its regional implications.
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12/04/2024
The governments of Japan, Britain and Italy are coordinating to include Saudi Arabia in their joint development of a next-generation fighter jet, Japanese government sources have said. Given the challenge of reducing development costs, the three governments are apparently interested in Saudi Arabia’s financial clout as a major oil producer. They are expected to reach an agreement on the matter by the end of this year.
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12/04/2024
The Navy is keeping its fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets at 80 percent readiness, six years after former Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered both the Air Force and Navy to raise their fighters’ readiness levels. The Air Force, meanwhile, has abandoned that goal and its fighters’ mission capable rates are still lagging.
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12/04/2024
The first two Sukhoi Su-35SE Flanker-E fighter jets were reportedly delivered to the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) recently. According to Flugrevue, a private ceremony was held during the handover at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft manufacturing facility (KnAAPO) in Russia’s Far East. The Su-35SEs’ components were brought to an airbase in Hamadan for reassembly upon their arrival in Tehran. Their delivery marked Iran’s acquisition of its first 4.5-generation fighter jets.
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12/03/2024
Deliveries of Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II combat aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force have resumed following a year-long delay. Three of the final nine F-35As on order arrived at RAAF Base Williamtown on 29 November after a ferry flight from Fort Worth in Texas in the US, where they are manufactured.
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12/03/2024
‘Listening to new options’, according to a senior civilian advisor, is a key piece of the US Air Force process of force redesign. One of those options is using the fighter-like drones that will come from the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, which was central to a panel discussion at the US Mitchell Institute’s Air Power Futures Forum in November. Another is a tighter focus on electromagnetic spectrum operations, the currently favored term for electromagnetic warfare (EW) and related activi
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12/03/2024
The Indian Navy is close to finalizing a landmark deal for 26 Rafale M naval fighter jets, with the contract expected to be signed by early 2025. “Rafale Marine is at an advanced stage of negotiations and is only one level short of taking it to the Cabinet Committee on Security,” Navy Chief Admiral DK Tripathi stated at the annual Navy Day press conference on December 2, 2024, indicating that the agreement could be finalized as early as the following month.
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12/03/2024
The last of the classic Cold War-era MiG-21 Fishbed fighters in Europe have been stood down from operational duties. Assigned to NATO, the Croatian Air Force was the final European operator of the MiG-21, a type that originally entered service back in 1959 and which had been a presence over the continent ever since then, in the hands of more than a dozen different nations.
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12/02/2024
Russian fighter jets have executed a series of airstrikes since early morning, targeting positions in the surrounding areas of the cities and towns of Murk, Khan Shaykhoun, Kafr Nebl, Hazarin and Tel Kawkabah in the southern countryside of Idlib and northern countryside of Hama. However, no casualties have been reported so far.
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12/01/2024
The Ministry of National Defense tracked nine Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels, and one official ship around Taiwan between 6 a.m. on Saturday (Nov. 30) and 6 a.m. on Sunday. Of the nine People’s Liberation Army aircraft, three crossed the Taiwan Strait median line in the nation’s northern and southwestern air defense identification zone, according to the MND.
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12/01/2024
In his evening address on November 29, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi noted a conversation with president of France Emmanuel Macron. The conversation was aimed at strengthening Ukraine's air defense, as well as "comprehensive defense support and accelerating the transfer of Mirage aircraft."
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12/01/2024
The networking with the Gripen gives the Super Tucano accurate airborne threat movements thanks to the Swedish jet’s advanced radar. The Brazilian Air Force uses its Super Tucanos to combat drug cartels and perform slow mover intercepts.
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