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Written by admin on March 9th, 2009
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., -- As the Air Force takes a turn towards a technology-based warfighting style, the RQ-4 Global Hawk has stuck its nose out and let it be known that high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flying is at the forefront of the fight.  The pilots and sensor operators ...
Written by admin on March 8th, 2009
The Indian prime minister's brand new office in the air - akin to the US president's Air Force One - is all set to be inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) later this month, an official said. Three Boeing Business Jets, fitted with the state-of-the-art security gadgets and latest communication ...
Written by admin on March 5th, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) - As the United States steps up diplomacy to prevent a North Korean missile launch, its military is also voicing growing confidence that it can shoot it down if Pyongyang goes ahead. Stephen Bosworth, the new US administration's envoy on North Korea, was holding talks in China on Wednesday ...
Written by admin on March 4th, 2009
One more gender barrier fell to the determination of women as Squadron Leader Veena Saharan became the first woman co-pilot to fly one of the mightiest and heaviest aircraft of the Indian Air Force - the Russian-built Illyushin-76 (IL-76). She will first co-pilot IL-76, renamed by the IAF as Gajraj (Elephant), ...
Written by admin on March 3rd, 2009
The US Air Force's decision to terminate the EB-52 stand-off jammer concept for a second time deals a new blow to the US electronic warfare community. Maj Scott Fisher, an electronic warfare modernisation requirements officer for Air Combat Command, confirms that funding for the revived EB-52 core component jammer (CCJ) effort has ...