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Latest newsPOLONIA TO ORDER C-295 AIRCRAFTS TO CASA
POLAND, Poland has signed a contract with spanish CASA to acquire eight of the medium range transports C-295 aircrafts. The planes will replace the aging An-26s and can haul up to 69 passengers with twin... more
Latest newsAIR FORCE ONE 707 TO BE RETIRED
WACO, TEXAS, The Air Force One Boeing 707 yesterday took its last flight to San ANtonio. The aircraft enntered into service in 1972, during the Nixon administration and transported seven Presidents of... more
Latest newsBULGARIA TO UPGRADE MIG-29'S FLEET
SOFIA, Bulgarian government said it will repair and refurbish its 21 Russian MiG-29 jet fighters scrapping the plan to replace them with U:S: F-16 fighters. The upgrading will be conducted in order to... more
Latest newsMALAYSIA CONSIDERING THE PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN PLANES
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysian government is considering the purchase of Su-30 fighter planes made by the Irkutsk Aircraft Manufacturing Association (IAMO), russian agency Interfax reported today. Malaysia may... more
Latest newsHUNGARY RENTS F-16
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, According to Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag, Budapest government decided to rent a 24-aircraft package composed of Lockheed Martin F-16 from United States, starting September 1st and... more
Latest newsISRAELI HELICOPTER KILLS PALESTINIAN LEADER
JERUSALEM, Abu Ali Mustafa one of the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front has been killed by an Israeli helicopter missile which hit his house in Ramallah which has been completely destroyed. According... more
Latest newsPENTAGON SAYS AN UNMANNED PLANE IS LOST OVER IRAQ
WASHINGTON, Pentagon sources reported that a Predator military unmanned aircraft is lost over Iraq's southern no-fly zone. The sources also said that the plane may have been shot down, as iraqi sources... more
Latest newsIRAQ SAYS IT SHOOTS DOWN US PLANE
IRAQ, An iraqi news agency, quoting military sources, said iraqi air defenses shot down a US recoinassance plane. "The air defenses in the Basra area shot down the plane when it was flying a spy mission... more
Latest newsBOEING DELIVERS FINAL C-17 TO UNITED KINGDOM ROYAL AIR FORCE
LONG BEACH, The Boeing Company delivered the fourth and final C-17 Globemaster III military cargo aircraft to the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) during ceremonies at the company's production facility... more
Latest newsUS SECOND WORLD WAR AIRCRAFT UNCOVERED BY THE FLOOD IN CHINESE RIVER
PEKING, The wreckage of a US airplane from the Second World War has been uncovered by flood waters in the river Tuojiang. The plane is believed to have dipped in the river in 1943, a chinese paper reports.... more
Latest newsINDONESIA MULLS BUYING RUSSIAN FIGHTERS
JAKARTA, Indonesia is considering purchasing an unspecified number of Sukhoi Su-30 military aircrafts to modernise its fleet, Atara news agency reported quoting military sources. Su-30 Flankers cost about... more
Latest newsMOLDOVA TO SELL MILITARY AIRCRAFTS
MOLDOVA, Moldova's parliament today approved the sale of six MiG-29 warplanes and 13 ground-to-ground missile launchers due to the lack of funds to maintain them. Moldova already sold 21 MiG-29 warplanes... more
Latest newsIRAQI MISSILE ALMOST HITS US SPY PLANE FLYING OVER THE NO FLY ZONE
IRAQ, A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane which was patrolling the no-fly zone over southern Iraq on Tuesday was almost hit by an iraqi missile. The reconnaissance plane was flying at about 60,000 feet and... more
Latest newsCHINA TO BUY 38 RUSSIAN FIGHTERS
MOSCOW, China ordered 38 Su-30 MKK military jets to Russia, Itar-Tass news agency reported. China already owns almost 100 Su-27 russian fighters. China's military modernization is geared toward threatening... more
Latest newsISRAELI HELICOPTERS ATTACK TO A HAMAS OFFICIAL HOME
JENIN, JORDAN, Some Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopters attacked and destroyed the house of a Palestinian Hamas official, Ibraihm Jaber, who was not at home and thus saved life. This action is related to... more
Latest newsUS SPY PLANE: CHINA WON'T HAVE ANY PAYOUT
WASHINGTON, The US House of Representatives yesterday voted against remboursing China for the 11 days the plane was grounded there and for repatriating costs. Republican congressman Tom DeLay said "this... more
Latest newsRUSSIA GROUNDS SU-33 FIGHTERS
MOSCOW, Russian government has decided to halt Su-33 flights temporarily pending yesterday's crash investigation. A Su-33 yesterday crashed in Ostrov in Pskov Region, during an airshow. Actually, about... more
Latest newsISRAELI HELICOPTER ATTACK KILLS FOUR
ISRAEL, Two Israeli Apache helicopters yesterday fired four rockets at palestinian civilians in Betlem, killing four Hanmas leaders accused of planning a terrorist act. "Regrettably, the Palestinian Authority... more
Latest newsCHINA TO BUY RUSSIAN PLANES
BEIJING, China would be close to buy russian military aircrafts, the Wall Street Journal and Russian daily Vedomosti reported. The deal would be signed in the next days during chinese president Jiang Zemin's... more
Latest newsUSA HANDS OVER RAPE SUSPECT TO JAPAN
OKINAWA, The United States decided to hand over to Japan Timothy Woodland, the sergeant suspected of raping a Japanese woman on the southern island of Okinawa, Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said this... more
Latest newsAMERICAN SPY PLANE FLOWN BACK TO USA
PEARL HARBOUR, HAWAII, The EP-3 U.S. spy plane has finally returned home. The dissembled aircraft, carried by a cargo plane Antonov 124, landed yesterday at Hawaii’s Hickam Air Force Base. It was a "totally r... more
Latest newsIRAQ LAUNCHES MISSILES AGAINST ALLIED AIRCRAFTS
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, According to Iraqi press agency Ina, sveral missiles were launched by Iraqi army agaist the U.S. and British aircrafts patrolling the no fly zone in the south of the Middle East country.... more
Latest newsBOEING JSF X-32B COMPLETES GOVERNMENT FLIGHT-TEST REQUIREMENTS
USA, The Boeing Joint Strike Fighter program has successfully accomplished all of its government-defined flight-test requirements. The program reached the final milestone Sunday by making a series of short... more
Latest newsSPY PLANE PARTS FLOWN TO OKINAWA
OKINAWA, Parts of the EP-3E Usa spy plane were flown on sunday aboard an Antonov 124 cargo plane to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa Island, in Japan. The stripped fuselage is expected to reach the other parts... more
Latest newsISRAELI WARPLANES DESTROY RADAR IN SYRIA
JERUSALEM, Few israeli fighter-bombers yesterday destroyed a Syrian Army radar base in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Two Syrian soldiers and a Lebanese soldier were wounded. Syria is allowing the accelerated... more
Latest newsRUSSIA TO DELIVER INDIA FIRST BATCH OF MILITITARY PLANES BY THE END OF THE YEAR
MOSCOW, Russia, in line with the contract, will deliver India a first batch of Su-30MKI within the end of this year, said russian agency Itar-Tass quoting the press secretary of the Sukhoi aircraft military-industrial... more
Latest newsUSA: RUMSFELD WANTS TO CUT B-1 BOMBERS FLEET
WASHINGTON, According to sourcer from Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to propose Congress to cut B-1 bombers fleet of one third. Moreover, Rumsfeld would like to ground the fleet of Bombers... more
Latest newsUS SPY PLANE WILL LEAVE CHINA IN MID-JULY
WASHINGTON, Navy officials at the Pentagon said that the dissembled sections of the EP-3 reconnaisance plane should return to Usa in "the week of July 9". The plane will leave the island after Lockheed... more
Latest newsMACEDONIAN AIR FORCE RECEIVES ITS FOUR SUKHOI
MACEDONIA, Three days ago, Macedonian Air force received the four Sukhoi 25 aircrafts ordered to Ukraina, which will be probably used against guerrillas bases in the city on Aracinovo, at about 10 Km from... more
Latest newsLOCKHEED MARTIN DELIVERS 25TH C-130J TO ROYAL AIR FORCE
MARIETTA, USA, Lockheed Martin today delivered the 25th C-130J airlifter to the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force. This completes deliveries under the current production contract. The first aircraft was... more
Latest newsJSF COMBAT AIRCRAFT FLIES AGAIN
LE BOURGET, PARIS, According to declarations of a Boeing spokesman, the Seattle based combat experimental aircraft JSF X32B has resumed flight at Patuxent River, Maryland, naval air base. According to... more
Latest newsUSA BEGINS OPERATIONS TO RECOVER SPY PLANE
CHINA, A team of american technicians and experts arrived yesterday to China's island of Heinan to begin the operations to recover the spy plane with the help of two giant Russian cargo planes. The aircraft... more
Latest newsRUSSIA AND INDIA SIGN AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION DEAL
MOSCOW, Russia and India have signed a cooperation agreement on the joint development, production, and certification of a multi-functional military transport plane named Il-214. Russia and India on Wednesday... more
Latest newsUS AIRCRAFTS HIT IRAQI AA SITE
IRAQ, After the U.S. Defense Secretary reported yesterday an increase in Iraqi anti-aircraft defense net, today some U.S. fighter aircraft hit an Iraqi anti aircraft site using precision-guided weapons,... more
Latest newsBOEING WINS CONTRACT WITH US AIR FORCE TO UPDATE C-130 FLEET
USA, Boeing has won a $4 bn contract with Pentagon to upgrade the US Air Force's C-130 fleet avionics. Boeing will develop a moder cockpit avionics system and the modifications will be carried out at the... more
Latest newsISRAELIAN FIGHTERS ENTERS LEBANIAN AIRSPACE
NEBATIYEH, LEBANON, Israeli Fighter aircrafts entered lebanian airspace flying at low-level and surpassing sound barriers many times. According to a Israel Army spokesman, the news according which the... more
Latest newsUS TECHNICIANS ARRIVE IN CHINA FOR TALKS ABOUT SPY PLANE
BEIJING, A team of four technicians and embassy personnel today arrived in Beijing to discuss on how to take the spy plane apart. They should meet over the weekend with representatives of the chinese Foreign... more
Latest newsUSA AND CINA TO DEFINE PROCEDURES FOR EP-3E REPATRIATION
HAINAN, CHINA, After about two months of nagociations and tensiones between Usa and China for the accident occurred to the electronic surveillance aircraft EP-3E, collided on April 1st against a Chinese... more
Latest newsEADS AND DASSAULT PULL OUT OF BIDDING FOR CONTRACT FOR THE CZECH AIR FORCE
PRAGUE, Czech Defence Ministry spokesman Milan Repka said that Eads and Dassault Aviation pulled out of Czech fighter contract bidding. Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced their withdrawal too. Therefore... more
Latest newsEUROPEAN COMPANIES TO BUILD NEW FIGHTER PLANE
HAMBURG, Financial Times Deutschland reported that European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), Dassault Industries, Alenia SpA, Saab AB and BAe Systems PLC and Eads would jointly develop a fighter... more
Latest newsISRAELI AIR FORCE SHOOTS DOWN LEBANESE JET
ISRAEL, The air force of Israel has shot down a lebanese civilian plane after it crossed into israeli air space, said a military spokesman. No details where released about the pilot. The plane was shot... more
Latest newsCHINA AND USA FIND AGREEMENT ON THE SPY PLANE
USA, The U.S. Navy spy plane detained in the chinese air base on Hainan island will be dissembled and shipped home. Usa and China have finally agreed over its destiny. The announcement was given by a spokesman... more
Latest newsGREECE TO BUY TIPHOON FIGHTERS AFTER 2006
ATHENS, Greece will buy several Typhoon military planes after 2006, Defence minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos said today. Last March, Greece announced it was planning to buy 60 Typhoon fighters from Eur... more
Latest newsFIRST BOEING C-17 FOR UNITED KINGDOM ARRIVES AT RAF BRIZE NORTON (2): SPECIFICATIONS
ROME, McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster II: Type: heavy-lift military transport Accomodation: two pilots, loadmaster, 208 troops, 102 paratroops Lenght: 174 ft Wingspan: 165 ft Height: 55 ft Empty... more
Latest newsFIRST BOEING C-17 FOR UNITED KINGDOM ARRIVES AT RAF BRIZE NORTON
RAF BRIZE NORTON, UNITED KINGDOM, The first of four Boeing C-17 military cargo aircraft being leased to the United Kingdom Royal Air Force arrived today at RAF Brize Norton, its new home base. The Ministry... more
Latest newsRUSSIA TO ASSIST EAST COUNTRIES TO UPDATE MIG-29
MOSCOW, Russia is expected to sign soon an agreement with several countries of Eastern Europe on mutual standardization, modernization and service maintenance of jet fighter MiG-29. The deal should be... more
Latest newsEP-3E CREW DECORATED
MARYLAND, USA, The entire crew of the U.S. electronic surveillance EP-3E aircraft, forced to land in the island of Hainan after a collision with a Chinese F-8 fighter, has been decorated by Defense Secretary... more
Latest newsUKRAINE DISMANTLES ITS LAST TU-95
KIEV, UKRAINE, Ukraine disassembled its last remaining Soviet Tu-95 strategic bomber yesterday, as part of the disarmament project launched under the US-Ukrainian Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.... more
Latest newsFLOOD IN SIBERIA: MILITARY AVIATION BOMBS ICE BARRIER
SIBERIA, The Russian military aviation was forced to help the populations near the Lena river, bombing, 70 times, an enormous ice barrier, which stopped the water's flux. In the last hours, more than 18,000... more
Latest newsISRAELI AIRCRAFTS ENTER IN LEBANON AIRSPACE
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Some Israeli fighters entered in Lebanon airspace, and surpassed the sound barrier, causing concerns in Beirut city residents. Lebanon reported often these violation of its airspace by... more