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Latest newsUs Air Force's Global Hawk will fly with the new technologies supplied by the European Eads
Los Angeles, Usa - The technologies will involve the unmanned flights
The aircraft named Global Hawk in the equipment of Usaf (United States Air Force), without any crew, will be equipped by the European firm Eads(European Aeronautic Defence and Space company) that will... more
Latest newsSigned an agreeement between Sweden and Hungary for Gripen aircraft
Stockholm, Sweden - It is the first contract by the adhesion of Hungary to Nato
For the first time by its entrance in Nato, Hungary has signed a contract with another member state. The agreement is related to some Gripen aircraft of Swedish fabrication. The aircraft will be equipped... more
Latest newsUs Marines to train the governmental Filipino troops
Manila, Philippines - Also 6 CH-53 helicopters to be involved
The American "know how" will be put to disposition of the Philippine Armed Forces that for 3 weeks will lead practices under the supervision of the most expert Us colleagues. They are 600 Marines who... more
Latest newsIsraeli fighters fly into Lebanese airspace
Beirut, Lebanon - Un blames the actions of Jerusalem Army
For the second day in a row day Israeli fighters have invaded the Lebanese airspace provoking the hard condamn both of the government of Beirut and of United Nations. According to Lebanese sources military... more
Latest newsUs cargo planes will operate from a base in Kyrgyzstan
Bishek, Kyrgyzstan - To carry out supporting mission in Afghanistan
American cargo airplanes C-130 Hercules will be deployed in the base of Manas near Bishek, in Kyrgyzstan. From this airport the aircraft will be able to reach Afghanistan for humanitarian aid missions... more
Latest newsPakistan's armed forces say that they have shooted down a spy-aircraft of Indian Air Force
Islamabad, Pakistan - The accident should have happened in the Pakistan's region of Kashmir
Trusting official sources of Pakistani armed forces during the daytime of today it should have been shooted down an unmanned spy aircraft of Indian armed forces that should have violated the air space... more
Latest newsNorwegian aircraft participate to an operative action in Afghanistan
Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Air Force did not enter in a war action since 1945
For the first time since 1945, so by the end of World War II, two aircraft of Norwegian Air Force have participated to an operative military action during which one has also launched some bombs on a target... more
Latest newsIsraeli official stopped a raid against the Palestinian
Tel Aviv, Israel - To avoid a massacre of innocents
The following day the massacre of Tel Aviv, in which 23 persons had been killed from two Palestinian kamikaze, in January 5, a Israeli heavy reprisal had been planned. The airplanes were already in flight... more
Latest newsIt's started the modernization of Russian Su-27 fleet
Moscow, Russia - 20 fighters to be upgraded just this year
It is gotten ready to begin the important operations of modernization of Su-27s at the plant of the same producer, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association, according to authoritative Russian... more
Latest newsIt's started the modernization of Russian Su-27 fleet (2): the technical file
Moscow, Russia - Probably the most advanced aircraft in the 80s
Su-27 "Flanker" is a multirole interceptor and a fighter of air superiority with the incredible performances, whose arrival was waited for with great trepidation by the Soviet Army. Indeed, in order... more
Latest newsNew super arm for Usa
Washington, USA - It renders the enemy missiles inoffensive
A new microwaves arm will be experienced soon by United States Air Force (Usaf). It is about a sophisticated technology able to put out radars and electronic equipments used by enemy armies. It seems that... more
Latest newsBerselli asks greater support by countries that support Eurofighter
London, United Kingdom - The proposal in the yesterday London meeting
"The four Defense Ministries of the governments that support the Eurofighter have to engage in not only for periodical meeting, in order to make the point of the situation, but also to take promote initiatives... more
Latest newsRussian airbase in Kyrgyzstan will be moved
Moscow, Russia - The new plant to be built at Kant
Important exponents of the Russian Air Force are gathered, in these days, in order to discuss on the future of Russian airbase in Kyrgyzstan, which is 15 km far from the capital, that is Bishkek. The... more
Latest newsA Jugoslav government airplane has carried Milutinovic to the Aja Court
Belgrade, Jugoslavia - Ex Serbian President has handed over the police
A Jugoslav government airplane has taken off, yesterday, from Belgrade with on board the ex-Serbian President, Milan Milutinovic. The man, who now he is found in a Dutch prison, has handed over Aja international... more
Latest newsFighter pilot selections are running in Hungary for a program approved by Nato
Budapest, Hungary - According to Ministry of Defense only 10% will exceed the tests
"On the basis of experience, one can say that only ten applicants out of hundred are selected". This is the statement of Hungarian Ministry of Defence, about the new program for the fighter pilots, approved... more
Latest newsIndia: Russian nuclear bombers are arriving (2): technical shit
New Delhi, India – TU 22M
The TU-22 bombers was intended to replace the TU-16, but due to its' poor performance it was deemed unsatisfactory. Carrying a similar payload to only a slightly greater range, the Tu-22 offered no real... more
Latest newsTwo F-16S for Edwards air force base
California, USA – The aircraft will join the test operation
"These two additional F-16S will help the test pilot school graduate our students fully trained and on time. Increasing the number of F16s helps us ensure that these aircraft are avaible when we need them... more
Latest newsIndia: Russian nuclear bombers are arriving
New Delhi, India - by March, there will be the contract signatures
According to Indian defense minister, George Fernandes, within the end of March, with the signature of three contracts, will be realized the agreement between Russia and India on the nuclear bombers. An... more
Latest newsAdventurous travel for the marines directed in Kuwait
Washington, USA - Two emergency landings for the charter that transported them
For 250 Marines who have traveled with an United Airlines charter directed to Kuwait, by Frankfurt and taken off from Riverside base in California, the travel has been turned in an incubus. Everything... more
Latest newsRussian Air Force updates 20 Sukhoi-27s (2): the technical aircraft sheet
Moscow, Russia - One of the best fighter ever built
Su-27 is a long range fighter comparable to the American F-15 but but superior in many respects. It is a twin-engined jet that has demonstrated an exceptional easiness of handling in whichever situation... more
Latest newsRussian Air Force to update 20 Sukhoi 27s
Moscow, Russia - By 3 years to be available the new tactical fighter
The new Russian tactical bomber for the 21st century, the fifth generation produced by the Sukhoi bureau, will not be ready before 2006-2007, and for this reason the Russian Air Force will renew its Su-27.... more
Latest newsThere are 5 women among the "alpini" leaving for Afghanistan
L'Aquila, Italy - Among the women soldiers a paratrooper
In the group of soldiers that will leave from Italy to Afghanistan, in the field of the operation Enduring Freedom, the operation that should guarantee the back coming of the democratic life in the asian... more
Latest newsA too hasty bombing that one that caused the dead of 4 Canadian soldiers
Washington, Usa - A risk of martial court for the two pilots
The trial in the comparisons of the two American military pilots, accused to have murdered 4 Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan on last April 17 during a patrolling mission of the Iraqi territory, has already... more
Latest newsHearing for the two American pilots charged for the dead of 4 Canadian soldier
Lousiana, USA - The tragedy happened in Afghanistan last April
The process against Harry Schmidt and William Umbach, the two American pilots guilty to have murdered erroneously some soldiers of the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan the slid one you open them, marks... more
Latest newsSix aircraft carriers in the gulf for the USA
Washington, USA – The ships would assure more military options
According to anonymous sources near the Pentagon, U.S Navy is planing in Persian Gulf area to ship six aircraft carriers, with approximately 80 airplane on board. If Iraq will be attacked, this six ships... more
Latest newsLanded Saturday in Kabul 35 Italian soldiers
Rome, Italy - The soldiers will be employed in the operation Enduring Freedom
The group of 35 Italian soldiers that had taken off by Rome on Thursday evening (news already published by AVIONEWS), transported to Abu Dhabi with a B-707 of the 14th group of Italian Air Force, then... more
Latest newsLack of money, it's crisis for the Russian Military Aviation
Moscow, Russia - An ignominious end for a sector that has marked the way of flying
The Soviet former-empire, whose peculiarity always has been the armaments, especially in the aeronautic field, must face one of the worst crisis of its history: the crash of its Air Force. This sector... more
Latest newsReady some F-16s to be delivered to Italy
Washington, Usa - Part of these aircraft is parked in a cemetary of military aircraft
In the middle of the desert of Arizona, in the aeronautical base of Sonora, not far from Tucson, the capital town of the federal State, there are, in a deposit, some F-16s that are destinated to Italian... more
Latest newsGerman choppers get equipped with filters: the decision after the December 21 incident in Kabul
Berlin, Germany - The disaster, maybe avoidable, it was caused for the dust itself, according to the commission
They will be equipped with special dust-filters the 100 Sikorsky Ch-53s of the German Air Force, being this solution already available in USA since 1994. The decision is taken after that the investigators,... more
Latest newsRussia-India agreement for the realization of a cargo
Moscow, Russia - The Russian Air Force said it
It has caught up an agreement, between Russia and India, for the realization of a new model of a cargo for military and civil use, that it will be used also for the transport of the passengers later. They... more
Latest newsAlmost half of Us Predators was lost in the last years
Washington, Usa - But the American Defense still trusts in the use of this aircraft
The Predator's activity, the unmanned airplane that is operated by a terrestrial remote control emplacement, is of fundamental importance either for the American Air Force and for Cia. While the Army... more
Latest newsThe Brazilian government postpones the purchase of fighter aircraft
Sao Paulo, Brasil - The money will invest in the fight the poverty
The Brazilian government of the Lula president has decided to postpone of a year the purchase of supersonic airplanes and to assign the sum, destined to the purchase, approximately a USD 1bn, to the program... more
Latest newsJapan to project an unmanned spy plane
Tokyo, Japan - They'll take not less than 5 years for a complete development
Japan seems decided to equip with own military technology of defense and, after the announcement some days before of a powerful spy satellite that soon will be in orbit, it is gotten ready to develop an... more
Latest newsCanadian militaries murdered in Afghanistan by mistake: unexpected developments of the process of two US pilots
New Orleans , USA - The defense accuses Usaf to hide the truth
It continues the trial against two American pilots who, in April 2002, killed by mistake in Afghanistan 4 Canadian soldiers making part of the antiterroristic mission. A trial characterized by many "dark... more
Latest newsAt Valona the Air Force has finished the airport and the academy
Valona, Albania - While the Undersecretary of Defense Filippo Berselli has carried the greetings of happy new year of the Italian Government
After two and half years since when at Valona, in Albania, the independent group Albit of the Italian Air Force has installed and the changes have been a lot. The hundred of men, that they operate in the... more
Latest newsDead 11 civilians in the Ivory Coast
Abidjan, Ivory Coast - The massacre after a bombing of the Army
Yesterday has been diffused the news, coming from French military sources, that the Army of the Ivory Coast should have bombed some civilian houses in the area of Menakro, West from the town of Bouaké,... more
Latest newsRAF's Typhoon will have the world's best air-to-air rockets by 2008
London, Great Britain - They are the new Meteor rockets
RAF's (Royal Air Force) Typhoon by 2008 will be supplied with the new Meteor air-to-air rockets that in this moment are judged the best rockets ever made in the world for the technological innovations... more
Latest newsUs F-16 bombs Pakistani forces on the Afghan border
Islamabad, Pakistan - No condemnation from the Pakistani government
It's high the tension in the Pakistani territories that extend as far as the Afghan border after the strafing, the last night, of a F-16 that, taken off from Bagram air base, has been called in support... more
Latest newsSaudi Arabia will supply its own bases in case of attack to Iraq (2): denial of the Saudi Secretary of State
Washington, Usa - "We want a diplomatic solution for the Iraqi question"
As a total denial of the news diffused yesterday by the New York Times regarding the possible concession of Saudi Arabian air bases in case of attack to Iraq, it arrives the declaration of the Saudi Secretary... more
Latest newsSaudi Arabia will supply its own air bases in case of attack to Iraq
New York, Usa - The news comes from Saudi official sources
Official sources of the Saudi government will supply again, as it happened for the precedent operation called "Desert Storm" headed by the former US president George Bush Senior, to the United States,... more
Latest newsAircraft flies over Baghdad sky
Baghdad, Iraq - Sudden meeting of the closest Saddam Hussein's staff members
Panic yesterday in Baghdad caused by an unidentified aircraft that has flown over the sky of the Iraqi capital town. The last case of this sort has verified last November 27th. The first consequence... more
Latest newsPolish government orders 48 fighting jets to Lockheed
Warsawa, Poland - The order has a value of USD 3,5bn
Foreseeing of the improvement promised by Poland, when it entered Nato in 1999, the government of the country of Eastern Europe has ordered to the Us firm Lockheed Martin 48 fighting jets for a value USD... more
Latest newsIt was doped the Us pilot who killed 4 Canadian soldiers by mistake
Washington, Usa - Opposite the conclusion of the military committee of inquiry
The amphetamines would have been given in order to verify the abilities of the soldiers according to an experiment lead last time by the Pentagon and would be also the cause of the incident that, in April,... more
Latest newsVenezuelan military aviation buys 12 new aircraft by Embraer
Caracas, Venezuela - They are 12 AMX-T
Venezuelan military aviation has bought in the last days, by the Brazilian firm Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica), renewed version of the old models AMX, in substitution of the old models T-20... more
Latest newsBoeing ready to produce a new jamming aircraft
St Louis, Usa - If the Navy should be favourable the first plane will be delivered in 2007
As for all the things the right retirement has arrived also for the EA-6B Prowler, an aircraft conceived by the Northrop Grumman during the Vietnam war that supplied to the neutralization of enemy air-defense... more
Latest newsIraq: "We have fired against American and English fighters
Baghdad, Iraq - The aircraft have fled in Kuwait
Iraq has said that its anti-aircraft artillery has fired against American and English fighters that flew in the southern of the country. "The enemy aircraft have escaped to their bases in Kuwait", said... more
Latest newsMilitary exercitation among Usa, Turkey and Israel
Jerusalem, Israel - It will involve aeronaval divisions of the three countries
Starting from the next January 1st is previewed a joint exercitation that will involve aeronaval divisions of Israel, Turkey and Usa. The exercitation will have as principal aim the improvement of the... more
Latest newsAustralia is ready to send troops in the Gulf area
Canberra, Australia - The decision has been taken by military headquarters
Australian military headquarters are ready to send troops in the Gulf area foreseeing an allied attack to Iraq. In particular they will send airborne troops. (0025) more
Latest newsFalse terrorism alarm in Washington (2) : F-16's technical sheet
Rome, Italy - The technical features of the aircraft
We are publishing the technical date of the aircraft taken off yesterday in the false terrorism alarm in Washington: Features: General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighting tornado Wingspan:... more
Latest newsFalse terrorism alarm in Washington
Washington, Usa - Because of the alarm two Us Air Force F-16 aircraft have taken off
Yesterday morning, because for a false terrorism alarm that involved the White House, two F-16 aircraft of the USAF (United States Air Force) have taken off and immediately patrolled the entire area to... more