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Latest newsABL programme: test fire for the laser cannon of the YAL-1
Washington, USA - The test was performed on the ground without the deployment of a real target
Lockheed Martin had delivered the laser cannon destined to a special 747 to Boeing last week, for a particular weapon system produced to face the threat of the ballistic missiles (see for details AVIONEWS).... more
Latest newsIt is waited for today the celebration of the new year of the Academy for air war of Florence
Florence, Italy - It would attend to it Tricarico and Bosi
It would take place today the celebration of the new year of the Academy for air war of Florence: it would attend, among the others, Leonardo Tricarico, head of the Italian Military Aviation and Francesco... more
Latest newsPeace Eagle programme: the military transformation of the first 737 started
Seattle, USA - The first plane to be involved by the installation of auxiliary tanks and the radar in the United States while the remaining three will be produced in Turkey
The first of the four Boeing 737-700s destined to meet the requirements of the Turkish Air Force's Peace Eagle programme for an AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) airplane, dedicated to surveillance,... more
Latest newsThe evolution of dogfighting in the United States
Washington, USA - The major US fighters will not be forced to modify their trim necessarily during short range fighting
Some test launch for air-to-air missiles in the United States are putting into evidence the near-term advantages awaited by the American pilots and partially combat ready today. The transformation from... more
Latest newsElbit selected to provide an update for the IAR-99 trainers
Bucharest, Romania - The Rumanian Air Force's trainer to be involved by a general update of avionics
The Rumanian-made IAR-99 Soim trainer will be involved by an update programme provided by Israeli Elbit. Bucharest's Ministry of Defence decided to award the Israeli firm with the sign of an agreement... more
Latest newsThe production of the STOVL version of the F-35 started
Washington, USA - Some criticism would have anyway been addressed to the choice for favouring the competition between two solutions for the engine
Pentagon would have recently provided a green light for the production stage of the STOVL (Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the new light multirole stealth... more
Latest newsThe Iranian military support for Hezbollah
Beirut, Lebanon - It would consist of rockets, missiles, UAVs and flight training by Iranian Air Force
After the detection by Israel of a drone flying along the Northern border of the national land and claimed by the Hezbollah Islamic armed movement (see for details AVIONEWS), the Arab world is focusing... more
Latest newsUSA: competition for the new USAF air tankers' fleet is increasing
Washington, USA - Boeing pointed out the operative capabilities of the 767 Tanker, as able to take off and land on unprepared runways
Lockheed Martin’s interest for the Pentagon’s programme related to the replacement of the old US Air Force air tankers’ fleet based on the KC-135s (see for details AVIONEWS), led Boeing, first and forem... more
Latest news80 new members for the British Sas
London, United Kingdom - The special force of the British Air Force seems to work in order to find the heads of Al Qaeda
According to the daily journal "Guardian" it seems that 80 new members of Sas (Special Air Service) of the British Air Force would join the 400 already operating: it is a decision of the United Kingdom's... more
Latest newsItalian Air Force Academy of Pozzuoli started its 81st year study
Naples, Italy - Leonardo Tricarico and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo attended at the ceremony
It started recently, the 81st year study of the Italian military Academy based in Pozzuoli. The General Giovanni Luigi Domini made the opening ceremony, by underlining that according to last tendency related... more
Latest newsThe new GBU-38 JDAM guided bomb was tested in Iraq
Washington, USA - It has been recently unveiled by US Navy
US Navy unveiled recently that the combat airplanes shipped on the John F. Kennedy US air carrier (CV-67) performed the drop of the first two 500 pounds GBU-38 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) guided... more
Latest newsNorthrop Grumman: "Windows and Linux for the new E-10 AEW&C plane"
Washington, USA - It is the solution offered by the US group, considered as a cheap, secure and reliable one
Commercial operative systems in order to manage a last generation surveillance, command and control platform in a network enabled setting? It is possible, cheap and reliable according to Northrop Grumman... more
Latest newsRome: head of the Polish Air Force is in Italy because of an official visit
Rome, Italy - In this occasion the main products of the aeronautics Italian industry, such as the helicopter EH-101 ed AB-139 would be presented
The General Ryszard Olszewski, Head of the Polish Air Force, came in Rome, with a delegation, because of an official visit in the country, which started yesterday. Olszewski was received by the head of... more
Latest newsJaveline: an all-Israeli-made advanced trainer
Tel Aviv, Israel - IAI to cooperate anyway with US ATG in order to complete the programme
IAI (Israel Aircraft Industries) started an important collaboration with US Aviation Technology Group (ATG), in order to produce a new advanced training airplane. After the failure of the Lavi programme... more
Latest newsGKN's contribution for the A-400M
London, UK - The British group to attend to a large part of the composite-made wing structure
The British group GKN achieved the sign of a cooperation agreement for the Airbus A-400M programme, related to the new military transport airplane produced by the well known aerospace company owned by... more
Latest newsEADS to attend to the update for the NATO AWACS' avionics
Manching, Germany - The interventions to deal with the mission computers, the related softwares and the sensor integration
The European Aerosapce and Defence group, EADS, will attend to the modernization of some avionics components destined to the NATO's E-3 Sentry AWACS surveillance, command and control fleet. Boeing decided... more
Latest newsGreece: additional diplomatic hostility with Turkey for the overflight of the Eagean Sea
Athens, Greece - Turkish fighters would have approached an Olympic Airlines's airliner and a military helicopter
Despite the recent denials by Turkish Government with reference to the accuses for violation of the Greek air space (see for details AVIONEWS), it does not seem that the diplomatic relations between the... more
Latest newsEurofighter: the sign on the Tranche 2 to occur in December
Paris, France - The EADS' representatives of the programme would be convinced of it
The sign of the agreements related to the production of the Tranche 2 of the Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon four-nations multirole medium-light fighter could occur in December. The EADS' representatives of... more
Latest newsLockheed Martin delivered to Boeing the first airborne laser cannon
Washington, USA - It will be installed aboard a special version of the 747 in order to face the threat of the ballistic missiles
Lockheed Martin delivered recently to Boeing the first airborne laser cannon destined to a special version of the 747-400F, which is going to become part and parcel of the US defensive system. The high... more
Latest newsAvio: the delivery of the F-110 engine's components started
Turin, Italy - They are destined to the F-16 fighter's power plant
Avio, an Italian company attending to the production of power plants for the aerospace sector, started the delivery of the first components related to the General Electric F-110 engine destined to the... more
Latest newsLockheed Martin interested in the provision of new air tankers for USAF
Washington, USA - The US company could compete with Boeing with reference to such military programme
Lockheed Martin would intend to compete for the provision of a certain amount of new air tankers destined to US Air Force. After the protests against some contracts awarded to Boeing (see for details AVIONEWS),... more
Latest newsUSA: the increasing role of the airlifted forces
Washington, USA - It proves more and more an important one to meet the quick global re-deployment exigencies with soldiers and vehicles
The US armed forces consider the airlifting activities related to opertions abroad as more and more important, when they need limited time scheduling in order to ensure the national security as soon as... more
Latest newsThe first Marine Corps' KC-130J has been delivered
Washington, USA - Lockheed Martin exalted the importance of this airplane regarding the operative exigencies and the current situation of the market
Marine Corps took recently delivery of its first new KC-130J Super Hercules produced by Lockheed Martin. Such delivery belongs to a remarkable joint programme which involves at the same time both the Marine's... more
Latest newsTurkey gives the lie to the violation of the Greek air space
Ankara, Turkey - The territory involved by the Greek-Turkish dispute would be the one related to Imia island
Turkish Government firmly rejected recently the accuses for violating the air space addressed to it by Greece for several times during the last weeks (see for details AVIONEWS). The area mainly involved... more
Latest newsGreece about to join the Eurofighter consortium
Turin, Italy - The Greek aerospace industry could join in case Athens' Government selects the new fighter for national defence
Alenia Aeronautica showed the new Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon multirole medium-light fighter officially yesterday to more than 70 diplomatic and military representatives coming from several countries among... more
Latest newsIndia: "one of our recce airplanes detected Bin Laden"
New Dheli, India - It would have been unveiled by ther Indian intelligence service to FBI though the USA did not comment this fact officially
Indian press unveiled about two weeks ago that a reconnaissance airplane of the Indian Air Force had detected by its sensors a suspicious convoy in the area related to the Pakistani North-Eastern border,... more
Latest newsThe secrets of Luftwaffe's airplane crashed in Val Cavargna in 1943 (2): the Junkers JU-88 A-4
Como, Italy - Airplane equipped with multirole capability
The Junkers JU-88 A-4 was one of the three main bombers used by Luftwaffe during the Second World War: the others two were the Heinkel HE-111 and the Dornier DO-17. The JU-88 was able to adapt itself beyond... more
Latest newsThe secrets of Luftwaffe's airplane crashed in Val Cavargna in 1943
Como, Italy - Perhaps incident was provoked by fault with radar under experimentation stage
Last Summer, a Luftwaffe’s plane of the Second World War has been recovered in a cleft of the Pizzo di Gino in Val Cavargna (Como, Italy) (see AVIONEWS). The aircraft was a Junkers JU-88 A-4 (see AVIONEWS) o... more
Latest newsF-35 JSF: tests on the avionics systems integration started
Washington, USA - The tests currently ongoing would be also intended to ensure the observance of the scheduled time related to the first flight
Lockheed Martin began recently to perform the first tests regarding the integration for several avionics systems scheduled for the F-35 JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) multirole stealth light fighter. It deals... more
Latest newsEA-18G: assembly of the first airframe destined to US Navy started
Washington, USA - The entry in the service of the electronic warfare-dedicated version of the F/A-18F is scheduled in 2009
The assembly of the first Boeing EA-18G multirole fighter dedicated to electronic warfare operations started in the United States. Such version stems directly from the F/A-18F, which is on its part the... more
Latest newsAVIONEWS at "International conference on advanced programmes for anti-G protection" held by Italian Air Force (2): conclusive notes
Rome, Italy - It is especially the aeronautic medicine to face up to challenge which comes from evolution of high performance aircraft
The manoeuvre air-air is the most stressful for pilots: in particular pilots are threatened by the famous G-Lock; thet is the temporary lack of consciousness of the pilot. All over the world, in terms... more
Latest newsChange in Tallil AVES Helicopter Squadron lead
Tallil, Iraq - Luca Bertuzzi leaves the lead of Squadron after four month service
The Lieutenant Colonel pilot Luca Bertuzzi chief of the 53th Squadron "Cassiopea" of the 7th Regiment "Vega" of Rimini left the lead of the 6th Operative Unit in Iraq after for month of service. During... more
Latest newsAVIONEWS at "International conference on advanced programmes for anti-G protection" held by Italian Air Force (2): central and final interventions
Rome, Italy - Italian view related to the deployment of the F-16 with 2740 hours flying and 1700 missions with such airplane
An intervention by Maj. Alexey Mendelov occurred half in the morning, and he underlined that, though it is difficult to put into evidence the improvement for the anti-g systems, he thinks that it is necessary... more
Latest newsTurkish fighters violate the Greek air space again
Athens, Greece - Greek Government denounced it and it would have threatened to avoid to support Turkish join in the European Union
Greece denounced the violation of its air space by Turkish Air Force’s combat airplanes again (see or details AVIONEWS). Such violations would have happened six times during this week, and some ten aircraft w... more
Latest newsItalian General Tricarico met Chinese and Pakistani Air Force leaders
Rome, Italy - The basis for developing friendly cooperation relations have been laid
The travel to Pakistan and China of General Tricarico, Italian Air Force General Staff, finished: he met the Air Force General Staff of two countries. During visit, the basis for developing friendly cooperation... more
Latest newsAVIONEWS at "International conference on advanced programmes for anti-g protection" held by Italian Air Force
Rome, Italy - Occurring today at Rome-Centocelle Airport
The international conference on the advanced programmes for anti-g protection started at the Conference hall of COI (Joint Operative Command, at Rome-Centocelle Airport) this morning at 09:00 am. Italy... more
Latest newsIraq: the British Regiment moved to Nassiriya
Nassiriya, Iraq - The shipment was disposed by Premier Tony Blair
The cargo military helicopters have been used today to transfer the British regiment "Black Watch" from Bassora, in the South of Iraq, to Nassiriya, city placed 375 kilometers from Baghdad, currently controlled... more
Latest newsIrkut: useful life-cycle certification for the engines destined to the Indian Su-30MKIs
Moscow, Russia - The AL-31FP engines to be produced by licence by the Indian national aerospace industry
Irkut, the Russian aerospace group attending to the programs related to the entire family of the Sukhoi Flanker multirole fighters, achieved an operative certification recently for the power plant of the... more
Latest newsUSAF's efforts against the crisis in Darfur
Kigali, Rwanda - Two C-130s to leave within few days to support the African Union's action
US Air Force Europe (Usafe, that is to say the European section of USAF operating within NATO) is scheduling several personnel, means and materials shipment towards Africa, in order to intervene with concrete... more
Latest newsThe Gripens challenge the F-16s
Stockholm, Sweden - A joint exercise between Swedish and Belgian air forces to appraise the capabilities of the JAS-39s and the F-16 MLUs.
The SAAB/British Aerospace JAS-39 Gripen multirole light fighters are being currently deployed in Sweden during a joint exercise with Belgian Air Force, which sent four F-16 Fighting Falcon light fighters... more
Latest newsAir strike on Falluja
Falluja, Iraq - It occurred yesterday and it would have killed a follower of Al Zarqawi according to American military sources
US Air Force's airplanes performed new strikes yesterday on the Iraqi city of Falluja. In particular, the US military authorities would have affirmed that a building would have been hit and inside it one... more
Latest newsThe 577 corpses of the Italian soldiers dead during the Second World War will returned to Italy
Udine, Italy - The research and the exhumation have been made by Honour Dead
Tomorrow a Italian Aviation C-130 aircraft will carry back the bodies of the Italian soldiers dead during the Second World War. The campaign has been conducted by the dead war honour Commission's workers... more
Latest newsThe 100th Typhoon is being manufactured in Germany
Manching, Germany - The fuselage centre section of the 100th airframe to be delivered to Spain
EADS' production facility located in Manching (Germany) started assembling the 100th fuselage centre section of the Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon multirole medium-light fighter. An important goal in the... more
Latest newsTurkey: an agreement with Boeing on the 737 AEW&Cs' systems
Ankara, Turkey - Four surveillance, command and control airplanes were ordered with two additional options, and deliveries starting in 2007
Turkey is scheduling to take delivery of its first two Boeing 737 AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) surveillance, command and control airplanes named Peace Eagle by 2007. The US aerospace company... more
Latest newsDenmark orders another C-130J Hercules
Copenaghen, Denmark - In order to satisfy the operative needs related to the high degree of mobility for the forces
Denmark would have recently ordered a new C-130J Hercules, after it already took delivery of three aircraft during this year, and Lockheed Martin would be ready to supply the military airlifter's airframe... more
Latest newsThe first Gripen destined to Czech Republic Air Force flew
Prague, Czech Republic - Deliveries of the 14 airplanes ordered to start next April
The first JAS-39 Gripen ordered by Czech Republic Air Force performed its maiden flight on last monday. During its first flight, the multirole light fighter produced by SAAB and British Aerospace stayed... more
Latest newsTests of the new mission system for the NATO's AWACS started
Washington, USA - All the 17 AEW&C airplanes should be fully combat ready with their new avionics equipment by 2008
Boeing started the tests of the new mission system scheduled by the updating programme for the avionics systems of the NATO's fleet based on the AWACS airplanes. The 17 E-3 Sentry aircraft for Surveillance,... more
Latest newsEADS: "Ready to build a facility in the USA to produce the new air tanker"
Berlin, Germany - According to the Eads board, a 50% of its technological content will be a US one
EADS carries on the promotion of its alternative solution in order to meet the exigencies of US Air Force regarding the future in flight refuelling operations (see for details AVIONEWS). According to what... more
Latest newsB-2 Spirit: a new electronically scanned array radar
El Segundo, USA - It will be provided by Raytheon, in order to warrant higher reliability and better performances
The B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bomber will be provided with a new radar soon. The Raytheon AN/APQ-181 is a last generation sensor endowed of an electronically scanned array and this solution, as already... more
Latest newsAustralia ready to attend the next Red Flag edition
Nellis, USA - Ten combat airplanes to perform air-to-air and air-to-surface missions
NATO exercise named Red Flag will occur starting on next October 23, at the US Nellis Base (Nevada) and it will go on lasting for two weeks. The main newness seems to be the one of the Australian Air Force's... more