Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Blue Angels adopt new G-force training program
Starting last month, the Blue Angels have been training under a new G-Tolerance Training Program that will reduce the incidence of "G-LOC."
The U.S. Navy believes G-LOC lead to the crash of a Blue Angel jet at the 2007 Beaufort Air Show.
Labels: Blue Angels Beaufort Crash
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India to build missile base near border with Pakistan
India is moving ahead to build a missile base near Rajasthan, just 120km from the border with Pakistan.
The 300-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile will be deployed there.
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Indonesia's new Su-30MK2s made test flights
Two Indonesian Su-30MK2, tail number TS3003 and TS3004, have made their first flights in Indonesia after being delivered last month.
Both aircraft flew for an hour yesterday with Russia crews at the controls.
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F-22s leaving for Japan today
Twelve F-22 fighters from the 27th Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base will deploy to Japan today.
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India MiG-27 upgrade completes
India's Defence Avionics Research Establishment has finished upgrading the avionics of the IAF's MiG-27 fleet.
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Chinook vandal gets 10 months sentence
A former Boeing employee who vandalized a Chinook helicopter has been sentenced to five months in prison and five months of house arrest.
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BAE Systems Receives $4.6 Million Contract for C-17 Troop Seats
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract for $4.6 million from Boeing Co. for troop seats on 15 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.
The seats are scheduled to be delivered through June 2010.
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Congress pushing for more Super Hornets
Twenty-two lawmakers have sent a letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in mid-December asking him to buy more F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets in the 2010 budget.
They expressed concern over a projected fighter gap due to the retirement of legacy Hornets and the late introduction of the F-35C.
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Boeing sees export market of 100 maritime patrol aircraft
Fresh from winning the first international customer for its P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, Boeing says it sees a projected global demand for at least 100 more airplanes in future.
"We see a market of 100-plus international Poseidons in the various maritime nations that need this kind of capability," Bob Feldmann, Boeing's program manager for the P-8 said.
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DAGR Missile Successful In First Live Warhead Shot
Lockheed Martin has successfully conducted the first live warhead ground launch test of the DAG guidance kit for the 2.75-inch rocket. DAGR is now 12-for-12 in contractor-funded flight tests.
Conducted at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, the latest test demonstrated DAGR’s vehicle penetration and time-delayed fuzing feature. Lockheed Martin engineers fired a DAGR-equipped rocket armed with a live warhead at a stationary vehicle. It successfully penetrated the side of the vehicle before detonating inside.
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NGC Begins Testing 'Cold-Launch' System For Kinetic Energy Interceptors
The Kinetic Energy Interceptors (KEI) industry team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation has begun testing the cold-launch system that will be essential for mobile, global and flexible missile defense.
A key part of this system -- the solid propellant gas generator -- was successfully tested Dec. 18 at Alliant Techsystems facility in Elkton, Md. ATK supplies the gas generator, and Raytheon Company participated as the team's lead for interceptor development.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
INS Viraat turn 50 this year
INS Viraat will celebrate fifty years of service this year on Nov. 18. The aircraft carrier was inducted into service as HMS Hermes in 1959.
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Team from India to negotiate carrier price
India has formed a team to travel to Moscow and negotiate the final price for Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.
Another team will later follow up on the delivery date.
Labels: INS Vikramaditya
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Remote Guardian Systems on schedule
The USAF Special Operations Command is on schedule to have seven Remote Guardian Systems installed on their CV-22s.
The U.S. Marine Corps will however wait for the gun to be qualified before deciding how to field it on the MV-22.
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P-8I deal confirmed
Old news for us actually if you are daily reader. The India government confirmed that its has become the first export customer for the Boeing P-8I.
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AFA grad with 'zero desire to fly' becomes F-22 flier
1st Lt. Austin Skelley, who is one of the first F-22 pilots without previous fighter experience, shares his story on how he became a fighter pilot.
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Pratt & Whitney Awarded Contract for Long Lead Procurements for Additional F119 Engines
Pratt & Whitney was awarded a contract from the United States Air Force valued at up to $7 million for long lead material procurement to produce an additional eight F119 engines for the F-22 Raptor.
The contract also includes an option for advance buy funding for long lead material procurement for up to 39 additional engines.
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Obama flies officially on Air Force jet
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama flew into Washington DC on a USAF 757-200 to prepare for his inauguration on Jan. 20.
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Mitsubishi Heavy workers fined for F-2 accident
Three Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd workers have to pay a 50,000yen fine each for causing the crash of a F-2 fighter jet in 2007.
They were careless in wiring the pitch rate gyro and the roll rate gyro by accidentally swapping their cables.
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Monday, January 05, 2009
India has signed contract for P-8I
In a low-key ceremony on Jan. 1, Indian Defense Ministry's joint secretary and acquisitions manager (maritime systems) Preeti Sudan and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems vice-president and country head Vivek Lall sign a deal for eight P-8I maritime patrol aircraft.
The Direct Commercial Sale is worth $2.1 billion and India will be getting its first aircraft in late 2012 or early 2013.
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Russia to continue Bulava missile test launches
Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, a deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, said Russia will continue to test the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile.
A Bulava test failed on Dec. 23 and some are calling for the program to be scrapped.
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American civilian and military space programs may merge
Bloomberg News reported late Thursday that incoming U.S. President Barack Obama may merge the civilian and military space programs together to better compete with China.
The next administration is exploring the option of using Pentagon's Delta IV and Atlas V rockets to send men to the moon instead of new rockets being developed at NASA.
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