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 Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) unveiled the first four of 24 Lockheed Martin F-16 aircraft in a ceremony today at Ben Guerrir Air Base in Morocco. Senior representatives from the Moroccan and U.S. governments and air forces were present for the historic event. This is Morocco’s first experience with the F-16 so the package being provided by the U.S. government is comprehensive. Morocco will acquire a Block 52 configuration ...
Category: Military Aviation
The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Infrared Search and Track (IRST) program received a Milestone B Acquisition Decision Memorandum from the U.S. Navy on July 13. This allows the program to advance to its next development phase, engineering and manufacturing development. The IRST system is a passive, long-range sensor that searches for and detects infrared emissions. The system can simultaneously track multiple targets and provide a highly effective air-to-air targeting capability, ...
Category: Military Aviation
The Indian Air Force (IAF) Tuesday lost a combat pilot when a MiG-21 fighter jet he was flying crashed near Bikaner in Rajasthan. “The MiG-21 Type-96 crashed today. The pilot has died,” an IAF officer told IANS here. The pilot’s identity will not be released till his family is informed. The crash took place in the precincts of Nal air base around midday, an IAF release said. “The aircraft was ...
Category: MiG News
The Lockheed Martin F-35 fleet is grounded while the joint programme office investigates the cause of a failure in the aircraft’s electrical system during ground tests.The failure occurred on an F-35A conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) test aircraft, numbered AF-4, but the precautionary grounding applies to all 20 F-35s that had reached flying status, according to a JPO statement. “Once the facts are understood, a determination will be made when ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
Aug
03
Iraqi F-16 order may double
Iraq’s order for F-16 fighter jets is likely to double as Iraqi officials press for a larger purchase in negotiations with the United States. The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is attempting to use defense contracts as a means of ensuring some U.S. troops are able to remain past the withdrawal deadline imposed under the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). This agreement, reached in 2008 between Iraq and ...
Category: Military Aviation
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II test jets made considerable flight test progress during the first quarter of 2011, conducting 199 test flights versus a plan of 142 flights. Additionally, the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant logged six times more vertical landings in the first quarter than in all of 2010. The test program remained ahead of plan despite the grounding of various test fleet aircraft for 4-15 days during ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
Russia’s Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation fighter, also known as PAK-FA, will perform its first public flight at the MAKS-2011 air show near Moscow in August, Nikolai Zanegin, Deputy General Director of Russia’s Aviasalon company, said on Wednesday. “Numerous visitors will see the fifth-generation fighter in the sky for the first time ever at the air show,” Zanegin said in an interview with Russian magazine National Defense. The Sukhoi T-50 fighter is ...
Category: Russian Aviation
Jul
29
F-16 damaged during landing
The Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jet was damaged when it overshot a runway at an air show in Oshkosh, Wis. The jet came to rest nose-down into the grass, officials said. The pilot was not injured, but the plane’s nose gear collapsed and the nose cone was cracked, officials said. A cause of the mishap has not been determined. The incident occurred Thursday at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture in ...
Category: Military Aviation
Jul
28
The USMC and the F-35C
The Lockheed Martin F-35C for the Marines makes little sense the sine-qua-non of Marine Aviation is first and foremost support the 0311 Rifleman. Tethering the Marine tactical fixed wing to a CBG, which may or may not be available as needed, or a long airfield, which again may or may not be available, rather than deploying the emerging three dimensional F-35B capability makes little technological sense-let alone tactical sense. Since all ...
Category: F-35 Lightning II
According to the Russian International Information Telegraph Agency refuses regarding India to purchase the Mig-35 fighter plane incidents, Russia strategy and technical analysis center assistant director Constantine Markey extended the branch saying. Russia should let the Indian Air force undertake the consequence for own decision. In the Moscow tradition to maintains the restraint to the Pakistani sell weapon, but refuses in India to purchase under the Mig-35 new situations, should ...
Category: MiG News
Russia’s Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA fifth-generation fighter has been placed on a short list of a South Korean tender for the delivery of advanced fighter jets, a Russian arms industry think-tank said on Monday. Korea is seeking to buy 60 fighters with advanced stealth capability from a foreign aircraft maker in the biggest arms-procurement deal ever for the country with an estimated budget of $7.86 billion under a program code-named FX-III. ...
Category: Russian Aviation
C-130 Hercules transport plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in southern Morocco, killing all eighty people on board, hospital and military sources said. The army said overnight seventy eight people were killed on the spot and two rushed to hospital after the Hercules C-130 crashed on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco’s worst military aviation disaster. A hospital source later told AFP that the injured died ...
Category: Military Aviation
The French Defense Ministry said Thursday it has entered into talks with civil and military aviation company Dassault Aviation (AM.FR) for it to design variants of Israeli-made medium-altitude, long endurance unmanned drones for use by the French military, starting in 2014. The French Air Force needs to replace its aging fleet of Harfang drones made by European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV (EAD.FR) that will be phased out in ...
Category: Military Aviation
Russian aviation endured a weekend of near misses, with laser attacks, birds and engine failure endangering passenger jets. In Rostov-na-Donu a Boeing jet arriving from Moscow was targeted by a laser beam in another attempt to dazzle pilots as they came in to land on Saturday evening. The crew managed to land the plane, and its 95 passengers, safely despite a green beam interfering with their vision. Moreover, the pilots ...
Category: General Aviation
