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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/1180129/air-force-probes-jet-fighter-crash

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RAAF's E/A-18G's are now Active...

 

Today (25 January), your Air Force achieved a significant milestone in delivering an airborne electronic attack capability with the first flight by Australian EA-18G Growlers with RAAF aircrew.

Two flights were conducted out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington State by Number 6 Squadron. The flights were the final stage in accepting the airframes into service.

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http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-bold-mig-35-fighter-finally-starts-flight-testing-19212

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video-conference with Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK-MiG) at the Kremlin on Jan. 26 to mark the start of flight-testing for the new Mikoyan MiG-35 Fulcrum-F. An advanced derivative of the venerable Soviet-era MiG-29, the MiG-35 incorporates new features such as three-dimensional thrust-vectoring and an active electronically scanned array radar.

“Let me start by congratulating you on this important event – the start of our new MiG-35 light fighter plane’s flight tests,” Putin said according to a transcript released by the Kremlin. “I hope very much that this fighter will contribute substantially to bolstering our Air Force and Aerospace Forces. The plane also has good export potential, given that more than 30 countries actively operate another model, the MiG-29.”

Test pilot Mikhail Belyayev, who was one of the aviators who took to the air in the new Fulcrum, offered a glowing review of the MiG-35—certainly not a surprise.

“As part of the MiG-35UB trial program, a crew of Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG – test pilots Mikhail Belyayev and Stanislav Gorbunov – have performed a flight to demonstrate its stability, controllability and maneuverability characteristics,” Belyayev said. “The objectives and results of the flight have been fully accomplished. All on-board systems worked properly. The engine and the integrated aircraft control system worked properly. The crew’s evaluation is positive. The quantitative evaluation will be made following the processing and analysis of the materials received from flight recording equipment.”

In his report to Putin, United Aircraft Corporation director Yury Slyusar, extolled the features of the new MiG-29 derivative. While the airframe is similar to the original MiG-29, the MiG-35 is practically a new design under the hood.

“The plane’s excellent results were achieved through using a new on-board defense system and new infrared search and track,” Slyusar said. “The plane’s radar visibility has been reduced by a several-fold factor. We have increased from six to eight the number of suspension points, which will make it possible to use current and future airborne weapons systems, including laser weapons. The plane’s range has been more than doubled. This was achieved through bigger capacity of internal tanks and mid-air refueling functions, which can be done in tanker regime with aircraft of the same family too. All systems used in the MiG-35 are Russian designed and made, including the newest systems – the inertial system and helmet-mounted targeting system.”

More importantly, the new jet will incorporate Russia’s first operational fighter-mounted active electronically scanned array radar—called the Zhuk-MA. The radar is able to track fighter-sized targets at ranges greater than 85 nautical miles. “It can follow from 10 to 30 targets at once, and can operate over land or sea. This is a genuinely unique and promising aircraft, 4++, you could say, very close to being fifth generation,” Putin noted during the conversation.

RSK-MiG—which falls under the aegis of the United Aircraft Corporation alongside arch-rival Sukhoi—hopes to recapture some the Mikoyan design bureau’s old glory with the new advanced MiG-29 derivative. RSK-MiG’s Fulcrum product line has been overshadowed by Sukhoi’s larger and more capable Flanker series in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“We have created a multi-spectrum system that was integrated into the armament system and additionally installed aboard the MiG-35, and along with other systems, we have developed the Generation 4++ complex,” United Aircraft Corporation general designer and vice president for innovations Sergei Korotkov told Putin. “ We hope that after the trials, the Defense Ministry will buy this machine and that foreign customers will also come to sign contracts with us.”

Only time will tell if the MiG-35 will be successful, but the Fulcrum-F might be the RSK-MiG’s last hope of regaining some of its lost market share on the international fighter market.

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Not sure if this shouldn't go to Funny Stuff instead, but seeing as it happened today, I guess it qualifies as News :D

 

http://www.aero.de/news-25996/A400M-laesst-Ministerin-im-Stich.html

 

My translation:

 

A400M abandons minister

 

Right at her first business trip taken in an A400M, the aircraft quit service for [German] minister of defense Ursula von der Leyen.

 

An engine had failed, the CDU politician said on Thursday in Lithuania. For the time being, the aircraft was grounded at the airport of Kaunas. The minister and her delegation wanted to take an older Transall aircraft for the return trip to Berlin.

 

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A civilian contractor was killed and an airman was injured in a training accident at a military range near Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico Tuesday.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/articles/air-force-1-killed-1-injured-in-holloman-training-accident

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I am an idiot, unfortunately for the world, I have a internet connection and a fondness for beer....apologies for that.

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"Northrop Grumman and the US Army completed the first flight of the UH-60V engineering and development model last month, bringing the legacy Black Hawk’s analog cockpit into the digital age.

 

Under a 2014 contract, Northrop switched out the analog gauges from the Lima models with electronic instrument displays.

 

The integrated avionics suite on the UH-60V maintains an interface that is almost identical to the M-model. Northrop has also designed the digital cockpit in accordance with the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standards, an open architecture initiative led by the US Navy which supports the integration of off-the-shelf hardware and common software across aviation platforms.

 

On 19 January the army flew a set of flight exercises testing the V-model cockpit take-off, hover and tracking capabilities. Following the V-model’s initial flight, the army is expected to transition the helicopter to its aviation flight test directorate this month. During that time, the army will undertake additional system level developmental testing on the aircraft and its software, according to the service.

 

Northrop will add another ten years to the life of the legacy L-model Black Hawks with the V-model digital cockpit upgrade. The army has targeted a fleet of 1,375 M-model Black Hawks and 760 UH-60V helicopters, FlightGlobal previously reported. The cockpit modifications will begin next year and run through 2033."

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Light Attack Aircraft Demo coming this Summer......

http://www.defensenews.com/articles/air-force-leaders-confirm-light-attack-aircraft-demo-to-take-off-this-summer

 

"ORLANDO, Fla. — The Air Force’s light attack aircraft flight demonstration is officially on the books, with an experiment scheduled this summer at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.

 

That event could be the first in a series of demos to determine the business case for a program of record, which has been termed OA-X.

 

“We’re going to formally invite industry to participate,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Friday. “Bring us what you have that fits the basic criteria of what we’re looking for. We call it ‘shovel ready.’ This is not something we’re looking to do a lot of research and development on. This is commercial, off-the-shelf that we can rapidly employ.”

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http://www.defensenews.com/articles/raytheon-radar-executes-first-ballistic-missile-test

 

 

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Raytheon radar executes first ballistic missile test

By: Rachael Kalinyak, March 31, 2017 (Photo Credit: Raytheon)

After a series of previous successes, Raytheon’s AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) successfully searched, acquired, and tracked a ballistic missile during the first dedicated ballistic missile defense exercise at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), the company announced March 31.

 

Tad Dickenson, Raytheon’s director of the AMDR program, indicated that “all systems were green” and the successes seen at the PMRF are “significant achievements and a testament to the expertise and commitment of this government and Raytheon team.”

 

The AN/SPY-6 remains on track for delivery to DDG 51 Flight III. After completing several milestones throughout the radar’s advancement, it will transition to low-rate initial production. The AN/SPY-6(V) is the first scalable radar built with radar modular assemblies, also known as radar building blocks, which are standalone radars that can be grouped together to build a radar of any size. Because of this, the radar is capable of increasing battlespace, situational awareness, and reaction time thanks to the greater capacity in range, sensitivity, and discrimination accuracy.

 

The AMDR will replace SPY-1D radars on new Aegis warships.The scalable sensor – meant to scale up for larger warships with more installed power and down for smaller vessels – is key to the Aegis system’s ability to track and defeat enemy air and ballistic missile targets.

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US Missile Defense Successfully Shoots Down ICBM in First Live-Fire Test of Its Kind

 

The Missile Defense Agency's ground-based defense system successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile during the first live-fire test of its kind Tuesday (May 30), the agency said.

 

The Ground-based Midcourse Defense(GMD) is designed to intercept and destroy missiles during the midcourse of their trajectory through space. Tuesday's test was the first time the system had faced a live-fire ICBM-class test, MDA said in a press release.

 

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