Military Aviation News-2012

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Future nano-UAVs could collect ISR in heavily defended airspace alongside Raptors and F-35s

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Lockheed F-35 Workers Ready For Long Strike

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Future nano-UAVs could collect ISR in heavily defended airspace alongside Raptors and F-35s

Nothing but poor marketing, All of them are too short-legged to work as ISR platforms,
and in a couple of years the X47 will do the job.

[djcross]

Nothing but poor marketing, All of them are too short-legged to work as ISR platforms,
and in a couple of years the X47 will do the job.

You are not thinking outside the box.

Imagine a scenario where a cargo plane passes by a village suspected of harboring terrorists. The cargo plane, flying at 7km altitude, releases a swarm of disposable electric-powered nano vehicles who fly down an perch in predetermined locations. Some perch on rooftops and others in trees, but they are collectively able to observe all activities in the village. The nano vehicles recharge their batteries via solar cells during the day so they can run their EO, IR and acoustic sensors at night. One or two UAVs serve as communications nodes, collecting data from the rest of the swarm and relaying that data to "home". An intel operator at 'home" can control individual UAV sensors or order the UAV to relocate to provide better coverage of areas within the village. And the swarm is operational for days or weeks, not minutes or hours like a legacy ISR airplane.

Watch starting at 1:35 in the following link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUbIh...eature=related

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Spanish air force plane C-101 crashed.

Crash of military plane in Spain kills 2

[Alepou 340MB]

A series of pictures of yesterdays incident taken by a Bulgarian plane spotter.

As seen on ΠΤΗΣΗ & ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑ's mags Blog site:
http://ptisidiastima.wordpress.com/2...garian-mig-29/

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LCA Navy Takes Off!

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UAE-based F-22s A Signal To Iran

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UAE-based F-22s A Signal To Iran

I smell a conspiracy in tech transfer to Iran

[mack8]

F-22s to UAE huh. So where exactly are the Barnes F-15s now ?

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Related News:

Israel’s Growing Commando Force Eyes V-22s

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Saudi F-15 warplane crashes, pilot safe

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Iraq to get first F-16 jets in early 2014-official

[mrmalaya]

This one slipped under the radar from last weeks posts:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...t-deal-371097/

UOR for RAF GR4 crews sees new Helmet mounted cueing system deployed to Afghanistan.

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‘Small number’ of pilots wary of flying F-22

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Colombian's Bell 212 helicopter crashes.

Colombia: 13 killed in military helicopter crash

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Lockheed Martin Delivers Last AMP C-5 To Air Force

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-The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Japan for a possible sale of an initial four F-35As with an option to purchase an additional 38 aircraft. The estimated cost is $10 billion.

Pentagon Contract Announcement

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ECA secures funds for NATO aggressor aircraft purchase

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Colombian's Bell 212 helicopter crashes.

Colombia: 13 killed in military helicopter crash

R.I.P.

but....

13 people stuffed in a Bell 212? Makes me wonder how did the pilot even manage to take off.

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Australia to push back F-35 decision by two years

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Indian Air Force lost half of MiG fighter jets in deadly crashes

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U.S. Air Force Receives Final Raptor

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US F-15 crashes in Mideast, crew ejects safely

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The third crash of F7-Ni fighter jets since 2009 when they were first delivered.

Nigerian Air Force jet crashes in Kaduna

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Related News:

Senior official raises F/A-XX doubts while retired USMC Generals question USN’s F-35 commitment

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-Argentina to buy 3 Mi-171E, and 3 Ka-226T.

http://lenta.ru/news/2012/05/04/buy/

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Kazakhstan Orders Eight More Eurocopter EC145s In A Government Framework Agreement for 45 of the Twin-Engine Helicopters

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Related News:

Senior official raises F/A-XX doubts while retired USMC Generals question USN’s F-35 commitment

General Gardner gets it. If it puts the big gray floaty things at risk, there will be no money for F/A-XX.

"That's very dangerous for the carrier because it makes the carrier irrelevant. They are not going to have first-day capability. I'm absolutely convinced that if you do not have stealth by the year 2022 to 2025 you will be irrelevant."

[haavarla]

He says there will not be any money for F/A-XX, period.