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Defence Aviation is a military aviation news and information website. The website provides a platform for companies, journalists, defence personnel, students, enthusiasts and researchers to gather information on the defence aviation industry. We have official news releases from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, EADS, BAE systems and Northrop Grumman. We travel to Airshows around the world. We also have analysis with active discussions.Analyzing the pictures and mystery behind capture of the U.S. stealth drone RQ-170
As the “Downed” RQ-170 Sentinel saga continues, the solution to the mystery of its capture is still under much speculation. The Iranian government claims that the UAV was hacked by its electronic warfare unit but the US government claims that the UAV malfunctioned and crashed. Soon after Iran displayed the captured …
Iran displays captured US RQ-170 Sentinel
An embarrassment to the United States Air Force, Iran displays a captured RQ-170 Sentinel on it’s national television. Iranian state run news agency IRNA had claimed that Iranian Armed Forces had brought down a RQ-170 with “little damage” to the aircraft, suggesting that a RQ-170 Sentinel was captured by Iranian Armed …
Iran claims to have captured a RQ-170 Sentinel
On Sunday International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) issued a statement that an unarmed U.S reconnaissance aircraft was missing while on a mission in western Afghanistan. ISAF did not specify on the type of the aircraft. Iranian state run news agency IRNA claimed that it had brought down a RQ-170 with “little …
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Gripen, SAAB’s Eurofighter Rival
Built to replace the Swedish Air Force’s Saab Draken and Viggen fighters, the Gripen project is becoming a popular rival to the European Eurofighter (Typhoon). Saab have won contracts to supply the air forces of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Thailand and South African, beating over Eurofighter to the contracts with its …
Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System
The Northrop Grumman X-47B is an demonstration Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) which first flew in February 2011. The X-47 project began as part of DARPA’s J-UCAS program, and is now part of the United States Navy’s UCAS-D (Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration) program, which aims to create a carrier-based unmanned …
Sukhoi PAK-FA a insight in the emerging future fighter designs
The Sukhoi PAK-FA (known to some as T-50-designation given to the prototype phase) is an emerging frontline, multi-role all weather combat aircraft under development in the Russian Federation. A successor to the venerable and now omnipresent Su-27 family, it is expected to be a standard bearer of the family into the battlefields of …
What is the Future Direction of the Fighter Jet Market?
With the current operations in Libya directly impacting the direction of the fighter jet market, military and industry professionals are faced with the challenge of defining immediate upgrade plans and future capability developments.
How are investments being prioritised for future fighter modernisation programmes in light of these recent operations and tightening budgets? …
Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance
Maritime Reconnaissance involves anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-ship, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance gathering and search and rescue operations by fixed-wing aircrafts which are designed to operate for long durations over water. They are operated by military forces and other government agencies for also roles such as battlefield surveillance, airspace surveillance, observation …
Attack Helicopters losing their touch
The AH-64 Apache is America’s premier attack helicopter. Boasting complex systems and advanced weapons, the Apache is truly a force to be reckoned with, or is it? Are attack helicopters in general fairly useless? Attack helicopters are primarily designed for CAS (Close Air-Support) missions, as well as some ground-attack missions. However, …
The importance of Close Air Support
Close air support is an air operation executed against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces. To carry out a successful CAS mission, air force needs to maintain tactical air superiority over the area of operation or complete air supremacy over hostile territory. A CAS aircraft may either be a …
Conquering the UAV Human Machine Interface
The pace of change within the field of Unmanned Aerial Systems is simply staggering. From relative obscurity in the 1990’s, there are now over 260 UAV variants flying or in development from over 50 countries. Whole new classes of aircraft have emerged: SUAS, TUAS, MALE, HALE, LEMV and UCAS, and capabilities …
Israeli Air Force maintaining air dominance
The Israeli Air Force has always been in action ever since its formation. It was initially called “Sherut Avir” the air wing of “Haganah” (which soon became the IDF or Israeli Defense Force) .It had very humble beginnings just like any other successful undertaking, but soon this small group of voluntary …
Eurofighter Typhoon vs Dassault Rafale
Eurofighter Typhoon is one of the worlds most advanced new generation multi-role/swing-role combat aircraft available on the market. With 707 aircraft ordered by six nations (Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Austria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), and in service with all nations, the aircraft is Europe’s largest military collaborative program. …
