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Jan 4-9 2010
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BrahMos missile to be inducted into Air Force in 2012
The country's prestigious 'BrahMos' missile would be inducted into the Air Force in 2012 that would ensure all the three wings of the military are equipped with the supersonic cruise missile, a top Defence official said today."We have developed the airborne missile part, and process of integrating it with the Aircraft 'Sukhoi' was progressing', BrahMos Aerospace Ltd CMD A Shivathanu Pillai told PTI at the BrahMos Aerospace's facility here.Trial run of Airborne BrahMos missile would be held next year and the target was to integrate it with the Aircraft in 2012, he said.Read more
Germany Says A400M Program Will Go Forward
The head of European plane maker Airbus is preparing to ditch its A400M military transport project, which is bogged down in talks with clients, a German press report said Jan. 5. But a German official said the intention was to press on with the program.Read more
India to develop 25% of fifth generation fighter
Scrutinising the Sukhoi Corporation’s work on the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) — a project that India will soon sign up to co-develop — gives one an idea of Russia’s size, and its aerospace expertise. During daytime, in Moscow, the Sukhoi Design Bureau conceptualises FGFA components; by 10 pm the drawings are electronically transmitted over 5,000 kilometres to a manufacturing unit in Siberia. Here, at KnAAPO (Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Organisation) — seven time zones away — it is already 5 am next morning. Within a couple of hours, the drawings start being translated into aircraft production.Read more
Ark Royal suffers third fire scare in her engine room
HMS Ark Royal has been hit by a third fire scare since her expensive refit in Portsmouth, The News can reveal.Crew in the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier had to use emergency systems to make one of her jet engines safe after a fire alarm went off.The starboard inner gas turbine in the forward engine room was cooled with sprinklers after it overheated during trials off the coast of Devon. Read more
Navy coming back to Wilmington this fall for ship commissioning
Impressed with its first visit to Wilmington for a warship commissioning in decades, the Navy is coming back.In a release late Tuesday, city officials announced that the military brass has decided to return to the Port City for the commissioning of the USS Gravely.The ceremony to officially welcome the 509-foot-long destroyer – named after the first African-American to command a Navy ship – to the fleet will take place this fall. Read more
Korea Sets Goal of $1.5 Bil. of Arms Sales This Year
The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has set a goal of achieving $1.5 billion in defense exports this year, up 28 percent from last year's 1.17 billion, the largest amount ever. ``To this end, pan-government efforts to pioneer worldwide defense markets and come up with related measures will be implemented,'' a DAPA spokesman said. Last year's exports marked a 13 percent increase from the previous year's $1.03 billion, he said. Read more
Norwegian submarines need base in Northern Norway
Norwegian submarines are instructed to sail more outside Northern Norway, but lack important support facilities on land, one year after Norway abandoned its Arctic base of Olavsvern.The Norwegian submarines are diesel-electric and have batteries that need charging every fourth or fifth week, says Head of the Norwegian Submarine Forces Commodore Erik Bøe to NRK. When the Olavsvern base outside Tromsø was closed, the submarines lost the only possibility for charging batteries in Northern Norway.Read more
Brazil Air Force prefers Swedish jets
The Brazilian Air Force would prefer to buy its next-generation fighter jets from Sweden, putting it at odds with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's preference for French planes, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.The deal, which could initially be worth more than $4 billion, has sparked fierce competition among aircraft manufacturers.An Air Force report said Sweden's Saab had presented the best overall project among the three finalists, Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported on Tuesday.Read more
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