Military Aviation News Archive
04/17/2010
The Pentagon is conducting basic cyberwarfare courses for lawmakers as they struggle with the confirmation of Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander as the first chief of U.S. Cyber Command.
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04/17/2010
Stoking its rivalry with the Air Force, the Army plots a way forward for its fleet of unmanned airplanes - predicting a wider range of missions, the rise of remotely piloted helicopters and the arrival of swarms of indoor-flying mini-drones.
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04/17/2010
Russia's aircraft manufacturer MiG is on the way to recovery from the financial crisis, a Russian defence expert said. The company, once the flagship of Russia's fighter plane industry, was on the brink of bankruptcy in 2008 after orders declined due to quality problems.
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04/17/2010
For the first time in three decades, the US and Brazil have a military agreement. Brazil is shopping for 36 new fighter jets, and the US is trying to counter growing Russian and Iranian influence in Latin America.
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04/17/2010
In a development that eases tension over the future of the U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan, the interim government of the Central Asian country has said the agreement over Manas air force base will extend for another year.
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04/17/2010
The end of the Cold War proved a blessing for Europe, and nowhere did this hold truer than in the continent’s northernmost “Nordic” countries. In 1991 these nations - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - witnessed the demise of their principal strategic threat, the Soviet Union.
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04/17/2010
Russia is increasingly flexing its military muscles by penetrating Western airspace.
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04/17/2010
American Eurocopter of Grand Prairie, anticipating a new Army program, is building one of three armed scout prototypes to demonstrate it can transform a civilian helicopter into a combat aircraft.
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04/17/2010
Finnish fighter jets which flew through the volcanic dust covering much of Europe suffered damage and the air force warned Friday the cloud could have a significant impact on planes.
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04/16/2010
The effectiveness of a countermeasure system for the U.S. Army Chinook helicopter to defeat guided missiles was proven in battle, BAE Systems said.
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04/16/2010
Engines screaming, China’s most advanced fighter jets took off, soared into a vertical climb, spun into rolls and veered off into a clear blue sky leaving a trail of smoke and the acrid smell of aviation fuel in its wake. The 24th Fighter Division of the Chinese Air Force yesterday showed off a formation of its J10 — or Annihilator 10 — to a select group of international military attachés for the first time.
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04/16/2010
Airbus parent EADS is working fast to seal a teaming agreement with another U.S. company after L-3 Communications Holdings Inc backed away from joining its bid for a U.S. refueling plane deal that could be worth $50 billion, sources familiar with the situation said.
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04/16/2010
All routine military air training in UK airspace has been suspended as a plume of volcanic ash drifts across much of northern Europe.
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04/16/2010
The skies over the Utah desert are becoming the test site for a new fleet of hulking high-tech dirigibles the U.S. military is hoping will provide battlefield commanders a bird's-eye view of cruise missiles and other threats.
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04/16/2010
Refused permission to fly in Turkish airspace, the Israel Air Force has its eyes on Europe and Asia as it searches for new training grounds for its fighter jets with an emphasis on long-range missions.
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04/16/2010
The overall developmental cost of Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has quietly zoomed past the Rs 13,000-crore mark, with the government sanctioning the extension of the fighter's "full-scale engineering development'' (FSED) till December 31, 2018.
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04/16/2010
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center are demonstrating network-centric capabilities aboard a U.S. Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) test aircraft during the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) at Nellis Air Force Base. The event began April 12 and is scheduled to conclude on April 22.
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04/15/2010
Northrop Grumman Corporation has helped the U.S. Air Force improve the mission availability of its fleet of B-2 stealth bombers by successfully completing the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase of the B-2 Radar Modernization Program (RMP).
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04/15/2010
The Swedish company Saab has offered Bulgaria Gripen fighter jets at the price of second-hand US F-16 planes.
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04/15/2010
GE Intelligent Platforms today announced that it had completed delivery of a $6.5 million order from Boeing (Long Beach, CA).
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04/15/2010
A defense agreement signed today by Brazil and the U.S. may make it easier for the countries to buy military planes from each other, officials said.
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04/15/2010
A senior Iranian military official warned that Tehran's newly produced unmanned aerial vehicles were capable of both striking hostile targets and gathering intelligence.
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04/15/2010
London could yet order at least a handful of Tranche 3B Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, if a deal to sell the aircraft to Oman is in place by early 2011.
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04/15/2010
Iraq was said to have relayed a formal request for the F-16 multi-role fighter from the United States.
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04/15/2010
The SU-30MKI multi-role fighter is a two-seat highly-manoeuvrable aircraft designed for air-superiority and for strikes on ground and naval targets. These aircraft have significantly enhanced the combat capabilities of the Indian Air Force.
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