Russia’s fifth-generation T-50 fighter jet will enter service with the country’s armed forces in 2016, and not 2015 as was previously announced, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “The T-50 fifth gener...
China has agreed to buy two dozen fighter jets and four submarines from Russia, state media reported Monday, the country’s first large-scale weapons technology purchases from Moscow in a decade. The agreement to b...
China buys from Russia the production line of Tu-22MB bombers for US $1.5 billion including transfer of all the technology for the production. China has already imported 6 such bombers as the bombers are much better th...
The Sukhoi aircraft maker delivered on Friday the first six Su-35S fighter jets to the Russian Air Force, the company said. The acceptance documents were signed by Defense Ministry officials at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur ...
An F-16 fighter-bomber from the United Arab Emirates crashed on landing Wednesday at an air base in southern Italy after completing a transfer flight from another base, officials said. He said the pilot ejected safely after landing on the outbound runway at the air base at Sigonella in western Sicily at ...
A European fighter aircraft is likely to provide the much-needed boost to India’s air power after the defence ministry preferred them over Russian and American aircraft such as the latest in the MIG series, the MIG-35, and the F-16 and the F-18. Rafale, built by France’s Dassault and the Eurofighter Typhoon ...
China may have test-flown the J-18 Red Eagle vertical short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) fighter earlier this month, if chatter on Chinese-language military blogs is accurate. China’s defense industry is largely opaque and it is difficult to substantiate Internet chatter. However, Chinese-language military blogs reported the first test flight of the ...
The Northrop Grumman Corporation built MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle marked a new single-day flight record of 18 hours. U.S. Navy operators achieved the record using a single aircraft in a series of endurance flights Feb. 25 from the USS Halyburton (FFG 40). Fire Scout ...
Pilots of the RAF’s top fighter jets are being grounded as a lack of spare parts means they cannot put in the flying hours to keep their skills up to date, MPs warn. Five Typhoon pilots were temporarily grounded last year because of a lack of aircraft availability, the Commons Public ...
A frightening collision between one of the world’s largest airliners and a commuter jet on a dark, wet tarmac at Kennedy Airport is underscoring worries about ground accidents as U.S. airports begin handling a new generation of giant planes. A total of 586 passengers and crew members were aboard the two ...
The Marine Corps completed an aviation first, April 8, by flying MV-22B Ospreys on the aircraft’s longest movement to date. Six Ospreys with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 266 returned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit after a trek from Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, to Souda Bay, Greece, with the assistance of a ...
Iran takes a unique step forward in the world of military aviation with the announcement of the country’s first jet fighter squadron comprised of all Iranian aircraft. The HESA Saeqeh jet fighter; Iranian built and designed- now has become part of Iran’s Air Force. Saeqeh means ‘Thunderbolt’ in Iran and that name was ...
Multipurpose fighter the Sukhoi Su-27 (Flanker) crashed near Vladivostok during a training flight. “According to preliminary data, the Su-27 crashed due to failure of one of the onboard systems”, said a source at the Russian Defense Ministry. The pilot managed to eject and landed successfully. The fighter crashed outside the village. ...
More than five years and nearly $80 billion after the world’s most expensive fighter jets joined the U.S. military fleet, the high-tech stealth F-22 Raptor has yet to see combat despite the U.S. Air Force’s involvement in three simultaneous major combat operations. When the U.S. led an international effort to secure a ...
SpaceX of California says it plans to launch the most powerful expendable rocket since the Apollo era in 2013. The Falcon 9-Heavy is a beefed up version of the vehicle the company will soon use to send a robotic cargo ship to the International Space Station. The new rocket should be ...
A British industry team led by British Aerospace Electronic Systems has completed the final tests on the ejection or escape system for all variants of the F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft. The system has been certified as safe for flight after a series of rigorous tests. The escape system, used in emergency ...
When it comes to Russian aerospace products, conventional wisdom is: The equipment is good, the after-market is awful. Ask the Indian air force and its officials would emphatically agree. Sourcing of spares and consumables for its Russian-built aircraft and weapon systems has sunk to a new low for the IAF, with the ...
The Boeing announced that it delivered F-15K 47 and F-15K 48 Slam Eagles to the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) at Daegu Air Base on March 15. The two F-15K Slam Eagles departed St. Louis on March 8 and made stops in Palmdale, California, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, and Anderson ...
