June 2011
The US Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of F-22 fighters, the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world, after problems emerged with the plane’s oxygen supply, officials said Friday. The radar-evading F-22 Raptors have been barred from flying since May 3 and Air Force officials could not say when the planes would return to the air. “The safety of our airmen is paramount and we will take the ...
Category: Military Aviation
The Norwegian parliament unanimously approved the funding of four Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II training jets to begin fulfilling Norway’s future air-combat capability requirements. These 5th Generation fighters will bridge the gap between Norway's aging F-16s currently in service, and due to be phased out by 2023 ... ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
MiG-29 crashed in southern Russia on Thursday during a test flight, killing the two pilots and prompting the defence ministry to suspend the plane from use during an investigation. The MiG-29 jet flown by experienced pilots went off the radar at around 1645 and crashed in the Astrakhan region around 43 kilometres from the town of Akhtubinsk, the defence ministry said. The commander in chief of the Russian air force ...
Category: MiG News
Eurofighter have completed a range of air-carriage trials for the MBDA Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), which forms part of the process of integrating the missile onto the Typhoon swing-role combat aircraft. The first of a series of trials to ensure the safe separation of the missile across the flight envelope were carried out by Eurofighter Partner Company BAE Systems with Instrumented Production Aircraft IPA 1 on the ...
Category: Military Aviation
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully participated in the 2011 Northern Edge joint military exercise by demonstrating key F-35 Joint Strike Fighter sensor capabilities in a demanding operational environment. The AN/APG-81 active electronically scanned array radar and AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System were ... ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
Forty-four people are now reported to have died in an air catastrophe in north-west Russia. Another eight have been taken to hospital with serious injuries. A Tu-134 airliner with 43 passengers and nine crew members on board was forced to make a crash landing near Petrozavodsk in Karelia in Russia’s north-west around midnight on Monday. The plane’s fuselage cracked on impact and burst into flames. The internal airliner was flying ...
Category: General Aviation
Fourteen mobility Airmen teamed together to fly a Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy on a direct, non-stop mission from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, here June 5 and June 6, 2011. The flight was the first time a U.S. Air Force plane flew this northern route from the United States, over Canada and into the Arctic Circle, then back down through Russian and Kazakhstan airspace to Afghanistan. “Everyone involved with this mission ...
Category: Military Aviation
NATO allies Poland and the United States signed a deal on Monday for the stationing of U.S. airforce personnel on Polish soil, a symbolically important move for Warsaw as it keeps a nervous eye on neighbouring Russia. The accord, endorsed by U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Warsaw late last month, provides for the establishment of a small air detachment to train Polish pilots in use of F-16 ...
Category: Military Aviation
The South Korean air force has unveiled its new TA-50 trainer jets designed for training for actual combat operations. The South Korean air force intends to deploy 200 new TA-50 Golden Eagle trainer jets designed to carry out a lead-in fighter training mission by mid-2012, defpro.com Web site reported Friday. The TA-50 trainer jets are a joint venture between by Korea Aerospace Industries, South Korea’s sole aircraft maker, and U.S. ...
Category: Military Aviation
NATO and Russian fighter jets held their first ever joint exercise Tuesday, teaming up in a bid to prevent attacks such as the September 11, 2001 strikes on the United States, a NATO official confirmed. “Today was an important step for NATO-Russia relations, and therefore in my opinion, also an important step for the world because the threat of terrorism is a common one,” Georges D’hollander, general manager of the ...
Category: Military Aviation
MiG aircraft maker delivered a new batch of five MiG-29K/KUB carrier-based fighters to the Indian navy in May, the company said. “A flight training simulator and other technical equipment has also been delivered,” MiG said in a statement on Monday. The two countries signed a contract stipulating the supply of 12 single-seat MiG-29Ks and four two-seat MiG-29KUBs to India in January 2004. The contract is part of a $1.5-billion deal ...
Category: MiG News
