March 2011
Aerospace, defence and security company Lockheed Martin has received a $726.6m (£447m) contract modification from the US Air Force for sustainment of the F-22 Raptor fleet. This modification is for the 2011 Follow-on Agile Sustainment for the Raptor (Faster) sustainment contract, which was awarded initially in 2008, with an option for 2009 that was exercised and a follow-on modification issued for 2010. Faster is a performance-based logistics contract providing weapon ...
Category: Military Aviation
Russia’s arms industry looks to be the big loser from U.N. sanctions imposed on Moammar Gadhafi’s Libyan regime as it fights its own people for survival. Russia’s state-run arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, will lose $4 billion in prospective contracts for fighter jets and tanks because of the United Nations’ actions, said Sergei Chemezov, head of the state industrial holding Russian Technologies. Those deals stemmed mainly from a military spending spree that ...
Category: Russian Aviation
The military has grounded its entire fleet of 10 F-35 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp while it investigates a dual generator failure and an oil leak that occurred during a flight test last week, the company said. The incident came just as military officials were reporting significant progress on the troubled $382 billion Lockheed program after a major restructuring that slowed development to allow more flight testing before ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
The Pentagon is generating plans for a no-fly zone over Libya—plans that could produce the first combat assignment for the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter. Whether the idea progresses beyond this stage is subject to United Nations and NATO support, the scale of Libyan military action against its civilians, and the reluctance of the U.S. to take on stewardship of military operations in yet another Muslim country. Nonetheless, the idea does ...
Category: Military Aviation
All six people on board were killed when an Antonov An-148 airplane on a trial flight crashed at 1040 Moscow time Saturday in the village of Garbuzovo in Belgorod region, an emergencies ministry spokesman said.Two test pilots were among the dead. No-one on the ground was killed, according to the local Emergencies Ministry. The aircraft, which belonged to the Voronezh Aircraft Plant, was being tested prior to delivery to Burma, ...
Category: General Aviation
A second prototype of the Russian fifth-generation T-50 fighter successfully conducted its maiden flight on Thursday, the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer said. The T-50 fighter is being developed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia’s Far East. The first prototype made its maiden flight in January 2010 and has so far conducted over 40 tests. “The second prototype of the fifth-generation fighter conducted today ...
Category: Russian Aviation
South Korea is interested in purchasing military planes of Russia’s Sukhoi Company, the chairman of the defence and security committee at the Russian Federation Council upper house of parliament, Viktor Ozerov, told Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, in an exclusive interview on Thursday. Ozerov heads a delegation of Russian parliamentarians to South Korea. According to the senator, South Korea and Russia cooperate in the military-technical sphere, and the fact that Russian ...
Category: Russian Aviation
