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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Japan is looking to join the United States, China and Russia with a stealth fighter that senior Japanese air force officials say can be ready for a prototype test flight in just three years, significantly upping the ante in the intensifying battle for air superiority in the Pacific. The prototype will likely be able to fly in 2014, Lt. Gen. Hideyuki Yoshioka, director of air systems development at Japan’s Ministry ...
Category: Military Aviation
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
In its class, the Su-30 MKI has no competition. Those who tried – the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon – have failed. Ask the most experienced Su-30 pilots in the country. They’ll tell you why. Ashu and Parag Lall, who are flying the Su-30, said: “No other aircraft in the world can perform the yaw turn and the tail slide, or do a vertical climb at 80 degrees and ...
Category: Russian Aviation
After a decade of wrangling and fierce lobbying, the Pentagon today awarded Chicago-based Boeing a $35 billion contract to being replacing the Air Force’s aging aerial refueling tanker fleet. The contract, which could create 50,000 jobs, primarily in Washington state and Kansas, was awarded to Boeing over Europe-based EADS, which planned to build the tankers in Alabama. The battle between Boeing and the European airplane conglomerate EADS has had many fits and ...
Category: Military Aviation
Russia has unveiled the biggest rearmament program since the fall of the Soviet Union, saying that it intends to buy 600 planes, 100 ships and 1,000 helicopters within the next decade. The ambitious overhaul will cost the equivalent of $644 billion and comes at a time when other countries such as Britain are cutting their defence spending to try to balance their national budgets. But with oil prices rising, Russia, ...
Category: Russian Aviation
More than 1,800 errors by air-traffic controllers including 43 most likely to cause a midair collision between planes were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration last year. The agency says that points up the need for greater safety steps. The higher number of air-traffic errors reflects better reporting, the Federal Aviation Administration says. Air-traffic errors that allowed planes to get too close together jumped 81% from 2007 to 2010, according ...
Category: General Aviation
The Indian tender for 126 MMRCAs (medium multi-role combat aircraft) to replace its ageing MiG-21s was announced long ago, but only now is the real intrigue unfolding. Competition between two main rivals – the United States’ F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Russia’s MiG-35 has been stiff. The intrigue heightened after Russia announced its MiG-35 would not be on display at an air show in Bangalore. Many experts took the absence of a ...
Category: MiG News
The RSK MiG-29UPG had its maiden flight at the Gromov LII airfield near Moscow on 4 February. The MiG-29UPG has been developed by RSK MiG at the request of the Indian Air Force (IAF). A Russian-Indian contract, worth $964 million, was signed on 7 March 2008 to upgrade 63 IAF MiG-29s. Six MiG-29s, including four single and two twin-seaters, will be upgraded at the RSK MiG facilities in Russia while ...
Category: MiG News
