October 2010
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Polish Navy Bryzas grounded after fatal crash
March 31, Warsaw, Poland: All Polish navy M28 Bryza aircraft have been grounded following a fatal crash in northern Poland that killed all four officers aboard...
1 April 2009
MoD admits to Nimrod failings
Lawyers acting for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have formally acknowledged that the MoD failed in its duty of care towards the 14 servicemen lost when Nimrod MR2 XV230 exploded in mid-air in 2006...
UK Defence Select Committee highly critical of MoD’s pay system
March 30: In a report published today on the MoD’s accounts for 2007-08 the Defence Select Committee pulled no punches in its condemnation of the new Joint Personnel Administration programme (JPA), rolled out in mid-2007...
31 March 2009
EADS remains committed to A400M
March 30: Clarifying comments made in the press, EADS confirmed it remains fully committed to the construction of the A400M, despite the contract signed in 2003 not providing the necessary conditions for successful development of the programme, it believes. EADS quotes an unrealistic timetable and the commercial nature of the contract not fitting the reality of a military programme containing high technological risks as reasons for delays...
30 March 2009
UAVs believed to have been used by Israel in Sudan
Mainstream media reports suggest that Israel conducted three military strikes against targets in Sudan in January and February against believed Iranian weapons shipments to Hamas in the Gaza Strip...
US Senators urge Obama not to drop Next Generation Bomber
Senators have sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to continue funding the development of the Next Generation Bomber, due to replace existing types from 2018. “It appears the Administration plans on raiding the defence budget to pay for the out-of-control spending habits that have come to define their governing philosophy”, said Senator John Thune, one of the bipartisan group of Senators....
US believes Syria set to receive the MiG-31E
According to his testimony on ‘annual threat assessment’ to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lt Gen Michael D. Maples, the outgoing head of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, believes that Damascus will soon take receipt of five advanced MiG-31Es. Maples told the committee “Recent Syrian contracts with Russia for future delivery include new MiG-31 and MiG-29M/M2 fighter aircraft.”...
F-15E Mission Training Centres updated
Boeing has delivered its F-15E ‘Suite 5’ upgrade to the USAF's F-15E Mission Training Centres (MTC) in the US and UK; at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina and Royal Air Force Lakenheath, Suffolk. This system upgrade ensures that the F-15E MTCs have aircrew training devices concurrent with the latest aircraft configuration, and includes recent changes to the F-15E cockpit and its ability to carry the Small Diameter Bomb...
F-35B begins hover-testing
March 26, East Hartford, Connecticut, USA: The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II began two weeks of hover pit testing powered by Pratt & Whitney’s F135 propulsion system to prove integration of the flight-proven F135 engine with Rolls Royce-designed STOVL lift components. “Hover pit testing is a major step toward achieving F-35 powered lift flight operations, and is a significant milestone,” said Bill Gostic, Vice President, Pratt & Whitney F135 engine programmes...
Qatar's C-17 takes shape
March 26, Long Beach, USA: Representatives from Qatar were at the Boeing C-17 final assembly facility to witness the major components of its Globemaster III airlifter being joined together for the first time. Qatar is the first Middle East nation to order the C-17....
27 March 2009
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