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Spain celebrates 10,000 flying hours with the Eurofighter Typhoon

Spanish Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons fly over the coastline.

22nd February 2010
Source: Eurofighter Typhoon

The Spanish Air Force have reached a key milestone as their Eurofighter Typhoon fleet achieved 10,000 flying hours. The event was marked in a ceremony held at Morón Air Base, in Southern Spain, hosted by Base [...]

Boeing Launches Compact 3-D Imaging Camera

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 8, 2010 -- The Boeing Company today announced it has begun offering a new, compact, energy-efficient camera that provides three-dimensional images for military and commercial applications.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 8, 2010 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced it has begun offering a new, compact, energy-efficient camera that provides three-dimensional images for military and commercial applications.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 8, 2010 — The Boeing Company [...]

BAE Systems to Provide Mission Computer Systems for Indian Navy Patrol Aircraft

P-8A Poseidon

01 Mar 2010 | Ref. 049/2010

GREENLAWN, New York – BAE Systems is developing the mission computer system suite for the P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy. The aircraft is a variant of the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon.

P-8A Poseidon

Developed by [...]

General Dynamics Awarded $228 Million Contract to Modernize FAA Communications System

FAIRFAX, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a contract to support and modernize the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrative Voice Enterprise Services (FAVES) program. The single-award [...]

Multi-aircraft mission provides key training in Thailand

Staff Sgt. Travis Weigel communicates with C-17 Globemaster III pilots before the crew departs for a mission in support of Cope Tiger 2010 March 8, 2010, at Udon Thani Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. Sergeant Weigel is a crew chief from the 703rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young)

Posted 3/10/2010
Source: USAF
by Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young
Defense Media Activity-Hawaii

3/10/2010 – UDON THANI ROYAL THAI AIR FORCE BASE, Thailand (AFNS) — C-17 Globemaster III aircrews integrated with multiple aircraft types to complete an airdrop training mission as part of Cope [...]

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

They flew non-combat missions, but 38 were killed in service

Associated Press
updated 55 minutes ago
Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON – A long-overlooked group of women who flew aircraft during World War II were awarded the Congressional Gold Medalon Wednesday.

Known as Women Airforce Service Pilots, [...]

USS Dewey Commissioned at Seal Beach

080126-N-1120L-045  PASCAGOULA, Miss. (Jan. 26, 2008)  Members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 Color Guard parade the colors as the christening ceremony for Pre-commissioning Unit Dewey (DDG 105)  at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems shipyard, Pascagoula, Miss. Dewey is the 55th ship in the Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers and is set to be delivered to the U.S. Navy in 2009. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael B. Lavender (RELEASED)

Story Number: NNS100306-20
Release Date: 3/6/2010 11:40:00 PM
From Surface Forces Public Affairs

SEAL BEACH, Calif. (NNS) — USS Dewey (DDG105) was formally commissioned today in a ceremony on Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, marking the first time a warship has been commissioned [...]

India set to buy 42 more Russian Su-30 fighter jets

©  RIA Novosti.Maja Mashina

02/03/2010
Source: RIA Novosti

India and Russia are negotiating a new contract on the delivery of 42 Su-30MKI to the Indian Air Force, an Indian newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing military sources.

© RIA Novosti.Maja Mashina

According to the Daily News and [...]

Lockheed Martin Eyes 90 Extra JSFs

Aviation Week’s DTI | Amy Butler | March 04, 2010
Source: Military.com
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology.

The F-35 manufacturer hopes to “buy back” up to 90 stealthy fighters that were lost in the recent program restructuring, but [...]

First Flight For Canada’s New Airlifter

Source: Lockheed Martin

MARIETTA, Ga., March 4th, 2010 — The first Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] CC-130J Super Hercules for Canada completed its first flight, March 3, 2010. The aircraft is the first of 17 CC-130Js and will be delivered in summer 2010. [...]

Gates says 'decisive phase' of war looms in Kandahar

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks with 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment troops at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Frontenac in Kandahar March 9, 2010.  REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool

Tue Mar 9, 2010 7:44pm GMT

By Phil Stewart

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan, March 9 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday they would soon be part of a “decisive phase” in the [...]

Tanker ‘Soap Opera’ May Not End With Northrop Pass

Six KC-135 Stratotankers demonstrate the elephant walk formation as they taxi down a runway right behind each other during a generation exercise Aug. 5 at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The exercise showcased McConnell AFB aircrews' capability to prepare a flight and take off within minutes of being notified of a mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Laura Suttles)

March 09, 2010, 12:34 PM EST
Source: Business Week
By Susanna Ray and Andrea Rothman

March 9 (Bloomberg) — Northrop Grumman Corp.’s decision to forgo bidding on the U.S. Air Force’s $35 billion refueling tanker program, leaving Boeing Co. without a competitor, may [...]

Indonesia believes has killed top wanted militant

Source: The Sun Daily

JAKARTA (March 9, 2010): Indonesian police believe they have shot dead a top fugitive militant, wanted over the 2002 Bali bombings, in what could be a major coup in the country’s fight against Islamist radicals, police and [...]

Indian submarine fire triggered by battery explosion: navy

Kilo class Submarine. File photo..

16:16, February 28, 2010
Source: People’s Daiy Online

The Indian submarine fire in an eastern port base on Friday was caused by its battery explosion, the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported on Sunday.

“It was due to a defective battery, while the Russia-made [...]

Taiwan Says China Now Has Edge In Air Power

An F-16 fighter of Taiwan air force releases flares during a live-fire drill at Paolishan, southern Taiwan on December 24, 2008.   Taiwan staged the exercise simulating a Chinese invasion as President Ma Ying-jeou highlighted the island's determination to defend itself despite warming ties with rival China.  AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN (Photo credit should read PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Agence France-Presse
Published: 8 Mar 2010 10:44

TAIPEI – China now has better fighter jets than Taiwan, according to a military report by the island’s defense ministry as the air force on Monday renewed its bid to obtain new F-16s from the [...]

U.S. Congress to Consider Whether Women Should Serve on Submarines

An aerial view of the LOS ANGELES CLASS Attack Submarine USS COLUMBUS (SSN 762) conducting an emergency surfacing drill, during a training exercise, off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii in 1998.

The House and Senate have 30 legislative days to consider a proposal from Defense Secretary Robert Gates that would allow women to serve on submarines for the first time.

Updated February 24, 2010
FOXNews.com

Congress is gearing up to weigh in on the [...]

5 killed in U.S. drone attack in Pakistan

Target was house in North Waziristan, officials say

NBC News and news services
updated 57 minutes ago
Source: MSNBC

MIR ALI, Pakistan – A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at [...]

Sectarian Violence Leaves Hundreds Dead in Nigeria

Photo: AP/NTA TV In this image taken from TV showing a victim laying in hospital after surviving the inter-faith violence in the town of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, about five kilometers south of the city of Jos, 7 Mar 2010. Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered hundreds of people on Sunday, many of them women and children.

08 March 2010
Gilbert da Costa | Abuja
Source: VOA News

Nigeria’s acting President Goodluck Jonathan is due to meet with security chiefs to discuss the recent clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers that killed hundreds of people near the central city [...]

US admits salvaging sunken Soviet submarine

An aerial starboard bow view of a Soviet Golf II class ballistic missile submarine underway. Date Shot: 1 Oct 1985

The American government has finally revealed details of a secret mission to raise a sunken Soviet submarine.

By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 4:40PM GMT 14 Feb 2010
Source: Telegraph

The admission ends more than 30 years of silence over one of the [...]

Lockheed Martin Awarded $171 Million For Advanced Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning Radars

The AN/APY-9 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Radar is integrated into the U.S. Navy’s new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. Photo courtesy U.S. Navy.

SYRACUSE, NY, March 4th, 2010 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] received a low-rate initial production contract valued at $171.8 million from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Bethpage, NY, for four AN/APY-9 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) radar systems and spare parts. [...]