Posts Tagged ‘Air Force’
Sukhoi’s T-50: Russia’s Answer to USA’s F-22 Raptor
Pravda.ru | 11 February 2010 Sukhoi's T-50 Ready To Fight with USA's F-22 Raptor Last week, Russia’s answer to USA’s F-22 Raptor, the PAK FA T-50, performed its first-ever test flight. The maiden flight marked the new era in the aviation industry of Russia – the era of the 5th generation fighter jet. The jet has been awaited since [...]
Sikorsky Working on Unmanned Black Hawk Helicopter
Star Tribune | By Stephen Singer | 1 February 2010 Sikorsky to invest $1B to develop unmanned Black Hawk, other next-generation maneuvers HARTFORD, Conn. - Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced a billion-dollar venture Monday that it hopes will respond to military demand for technology to fight two wars, including Black Hawk helicopters that can [...]
The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047
TomDispatch | By Nick Turse | 24 January 2010 The Drone Surge Today, Tomorrow, and 2047 Jump to: Introductory Remarks by Tom Engelhardt One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same [...]
India Being Groomed to Take Over Afghanistan from US/NATO Forces
The Vancouver Sun | By Jonathan Manthorpe | 6 January 2010 Success after NATO's Afghanistan exit largely depends on India Regional superpower has invested in Afghanistan reconstruction and trade, but that has raised long-held tensions with Pakistan The key to what happens in Afghanistan after the United States and NATO allies including [...]
U.S. Refuses to “Share” Shamsi Airbase in Balochistan, or to Vacate Three Other Bases in Pakistan
Quoting “an official,” a front page story in Pakistan's leading English news daily, Dawn, claimed on Saturday that the United States has vacated all airbases in Pakistan, except the Shamsi airbase: “... the airbases near Jacobabad, Pasni, and Dalbandin had been vacated by the Americans ‘a long time ago’... Sources said the Shahbaz [...]
Is Northrop Grumman Working on a NextGen Bomber (NGB)?
Aviation Week | By Bill Sweetman | 22 December 2009 Classified Bomber Under Consideration The $2-billion question in development of a new bomber is whether a major black-world demonstration program is already underway, with Northrop Grumman as the contractor. This hypothesis makes sense of a series of clues that have appeared since 2005. In [...]
NextGen “Beast of Kandahar”: New Long-Range ISR/Strike Aircraft Planned for 2011
Aviation Week | By David A. Fulghum | 21 December 2009 New ISR Project Planned For 2011 New clues are emerging about a follow-on to the now-discarded Next-Generation Bomber. Among them is the revelation that it will be as much about intelligence-gathering as bombing and that many of its weapons will produce effects other than [...]
Pakistan Inducts its First Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft
Ares | By Graham Warwick | 29 December 2009 Pakistan Inducts First AEW&C The Pakistan air force formally inducted its first Saab 2000 airborne early warning and control aircraft today (Dec. 29) at Kamra airbase. The first of four on order under Project Horizon, the aircraft arrived in country on Dec. 8. The remaining three will be [...]
UAE Military Gears Up to Provide Greater Logistic Support to US/NATO “Af/Pak” War
Aviation Week | By Robert Wall | 22 December 2009 UAE C-17 Deal Advances LONDON — The United Arab Emirates plan to procure four Boeing C-17 airlifters has taken another step forward with the formal foreign military sale (FMS) notification now submitted to Congress for parts of the transaction. The FMS deal would cover the logistics element [...]
U.S. Military Joins CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 10 December 2009 The headquarters for the American military’s air war in Central Asia and the Middle East is located in a converted medical warehouse on an undisclosed base in a country the U.S. Air Force would rather not name. The lights are turned down low, so the troops can clearly see the giant screen at [...]
