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Australia gives green light for F-35sMelbourne (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 Australia has given its final approval for the first group of Joint Strike Fighters, worth $3 billion for 14 aircraft to be delivered in 2014. The Ministry of Defense said the F-35 aircraft will be handed over in the United States, ready to begin initial training and test activities and are to replace Australia's F/A-18F Super Hornets. Australia's first operational squadron will ... read more |
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RAAF Base Williamtown, Australia (SPX) Dec 01, 2009Boeing has delivered the first two Project Wedgetail 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW and C) aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The aircraft were delivered during a ceremony at RAAF Base Williamtown, the main operating base for the Wedgetail fleet. Attending the ceremony were officials from the RAAF, the Defence Materiel Organisation and Boeing. Delivery of ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 28, 2009Japan on Saturday launched a next-generation spy satellite as part of efforts to beef up its surveillance system against the threat of North Korea's missiles, officials said. An H-2A rocket carrying the nation's No. 3 Information Gathering Satellite was launched Saturday morning from Tanegashima Space Centre on Tanegashima island, southwestern Japan, the officials said. "We successfully ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2009On 21 August 2009, the Montara offshore oil platform in the Timor Sea (a large sea bordering the Indian Ocean, to the northeast of Australia) started leaking oil. Over a period of ten weeks, more than two million litres of oil were lost into the sea, forming a 2000 square kilometre slick. The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X followed the growth of the slick as it occurred. The picture ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Nov 23, 2009Japan is considering buying around 40 F-35 fighter jets as the future mainstay of the nation's air force, it was reported Monday. Japan has officially been pacifist since World War II but has been gradually expanding the role of its military, in part due to concern over nuclear-armed North Korea and China's continued military growth. The defence ministry will likely seek funds in the ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2009US and Canadian military commanders are reviewing whether to maintain elaborate air defenses set up after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a spokesman said on Friday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) launched the review to examine the threat of a possible terrorist attack from the air and possible changes to the current post-9/11 mission, the command's spokesman said. ... more 
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Nov 20, 2009 A Russian military delegation is inspecting airfields before Moscow sends 10 MiG-29 fighter jets to bolster Lebanon's almost non-existent air force, a challenge to U.S. efforts to build up the Mediterranean country's state institutions to counter Hezbollah. Under a deal announced in December by Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr during a visit to Moscow, Russia will provide the MiG-29 ... more |
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