January 2016
A Russian fighter jet came within 20 feet of a U.S. Air Force spy plane over the Black Sea in southeastern Europe this week, a Pentagon representative said Thursday evening. The reported incident between the Russian Su-27 and the American RC-135 is the latest involving Moscow’s air force, which during the past year has been cited for harassing other military aircraft and traversing the sovereign airspace of countries around Europe. ...
Category: Military Aviation
Although the Joint Program Office maintains the F-35 program remains on track, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester recently raised concerns that the fifth-generation fighter jet’s software development could fall behind. In a Dec. 11 memo, Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department’s director of operational test and evaluation, described as being “not realistic” the JPO’s current plan to finish work on the F-35’s Block 3F software — the final software block required for full ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
The Russian Aerospace Force carries on with upgrading its MiG-29 (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) fighter fleet, according to the MiG Corporation’s 2015 annual report. As of March 2015, the MiG-29 fleet operated by the service comprised 184 aircraft, including 120 MiG-29s, 30 MiG-29UBs, 28 MiG-29SMTs and six MiG-29UBTs. Many of the baseline MiG-29s have grown obsolete, and their overhaul would not be expedient due to the expiry of their service ...
Category: MiG News
Russia has struck a deal with Egypt to deliver 46 Kamov Ka-52K navalized attack helicopters, the director-general of the state-run Russian Helicopters aircraft maker said Wednesday. Ka-52Ks were designed for French-made Mistral helicopter carriers that were to join the Russian Navy last year, before France cancelled the deal over Ukraine. ...
Category: Military Aviation
