F-16 crash at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina kills pilot
A US Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft crashed during a training mission in South Carolina, killing the pilot, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The plane went down about 11:30 pm Tuesday...
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IAF to urgently procure 21 MiG 29s, 12 Su 30s
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is going ahead with plans to order 33 additional fighter jets from Russia, with the proposal expected to be taken up for clearances by the...
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Su-57 Could Soon Have a Robot in the Cockpit
Russia’s new Su-57 stealth fighter is reportedly undergoing unmanned testing. The Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed “Felon” by NATO, is a large twin-engine stealth fighter in the same rough class as the...
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IAF Mig-29 Crashes in Punjab’s Nawanshahr
Mig-29 fighter aircraft of the IAF crashed in Chuharpur village here on Friday after it developed a technical snag, officials said. The pilot ejected safely and has been rescued, they...
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F-15QA Completes Successful First Flight
Boeing successfully completed the first flight of the F-15QA fighter, the most advanced version of the jet ever manufactured. Developed for the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF), the jet demonstrated...
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Uncorrected Design Flaws Plague the F-35 Program
The latest testing report on the F-35 shows there hasn't been appreciable improvement in the program's overall reliability since 2016 As the F-35 program limps toward the end of its...
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Lockheed Martin Delivers 500th F-35 Aircraft
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the F-35 Joint Program Office delivered the 500th F-35. In February, the F-35 enterprise surpassed 250,000 flight hours. The 500th production aircraft is a U.S....
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France, Germany sign contract to develop fighter jet prototype
France and Germany signed a 150 million euro ($161.84 million) deal on Thursday to develop a prototype of the next generation fighter jet, a project seen as vital for Europe...
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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 ...
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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
Russia will begin delivering the S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system to Iran next month, a Russian news agency reported on Friday. “The process of delivery of the first regiment of the S-300PMU-2 air defense systems is planned to begin in January and to be completed in February,” an unnamed source was quoted by TASS as saying. “Iran is due to receive the second regiment of these systems in August or ...
Category: Military Aviation
The aviation of Russia’s Southern Military District has been fully rearmed with Su-34 attack aircraft, the district’s press service said in a statement Wednesday. The statement added that with the arrival of the Su-34 aircraft the Southern Military District had completed the formation of a third air squadron of the modern warplanes. “A separate bomber aviation regiment of the Southern Military District, located in the Rostov Region, received yet another frontline Su-34 fighter-bomber,” the statement said. According to the statement, ...
Category: Russian Aviation
The Russian Defense Ministry has got within the 2015 state defense order 243 modern aircraft and 90 air defense missile systems and complexes, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Friday. “We received within the 2015 state defense order 243 modern aircraft, 90 air defense missile systems and complexes and 208 radar systems,” he said. According to the minister, a new branch of the armed forces – the Aerospace Force – was created ...
Category: Russian Aviation
Russia is continuing to up the ante in Syria following the downing of one of its Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer bombers by Turkey. Moscow is considering deploying about a dozen more Sukhoi Su-30SM Flanker air superiority fighters to its base in Latakia to provide fighter escort for its strike aircraft, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant. That’s in addition to the powerful S-400 air and missile defense system and the missile ...
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Russia and China have agreed on the sale of 24 advanced Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to Beijing, the Russian state holding Rostec said on Thursday. The deal — which military experts say could be worth more than $2 billion (1.87 billion euros) — represents the first time a foreign state has purchased the Su-35. A representative of Rostec confirmed a deal had been reached but declined to give details on the ...
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The Pentagon has completed the third and final developmental flight test for the B61 Mod 12 aircraft-delivered thermonuclear bomb. Unlike previous American nuclear bombs, the new B61-12 is designed for high accuracy using inertial guidance but low yields—which is hoped will give the weapon better overall performance. “This demonstration of effective end-to-end system performance under representative delivery conditions marks another 2015 achievement in the development of the B61-12 Life Extension ...
Category: Military Aviation
Many parts of the T-50 (PAK FA) covering are equipped with antenna systems which allow for the full use of its capabilities. The Russian T-50 (PAK FA) fifth-generation jet fighters is a “100 percent digital aircraft” because of the “smart covering” of its body, Igor Nasenkov, Deputy CEO of KRET Holding, told RIA Novosti. KRET, part of Russia’s Rostec hi-tech corporation, developed electronic systems for the aircraft. “The PAK FA ...
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British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was increasingly likely a bomb brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt with the loss of 224 lives, and U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington was taking that possibility “very seriously”. But Moscow, which launched air strikes against Islamist fighters including Islamic State in Syria more than a month ago, said it was premature to reach conclusions that the flight was ...
Category: General Aviation
The Air Force said Tuesday that Northrop Grumman will build the next generation stealth bomber. The Associated Press reports that Northrop Grumman beat out a team formed by two other defense contractors, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to secure the “highly classified, $55 billion project” that will “replace the aging bomber fleet with an information-age aircraft that eventually may be capable of flying without a pilot aboard.” According to the Washington ...
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The United States is preparing to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in order to bolster bilateral ties between the two countries senior American officials told The New York Times. U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif to the White House Thursday. As of now, it is unclear whether the weapon sale was discussed in any detail. So far, no public announcement has been made. However, the United ...
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Germany’s defence ministry has identified a new technical problem with Eurofighter combat aircraft and frozen deliveries until further notice, a spokesman said Tuesday. The problem was similar to a defect identified last year and also related to the deburring of holes drilled into the fuselage, but at “another location,” he told AFP. The manufacturer has stressed that the flaw does not affect the aircraft’s safety, ease of use or lifespan, ...
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The Russian Aerospace Forces will receive 16 Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters, 18 Su-30SM Flanker multi-role fighter jets and 11 MiG-31 Foxhound supersonic interceptor aircraft before the end of the year, the aircraft manufacturers told Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu Friday. ...
Category: Russian Aviation
