pMOSCOW – Algeria wants to return 15 fighter jets it bought from Russia because of their poor quality, the Kommersant daily reported on Feb. 18, citing an official from Russia’s state United Aerospace Corporation./ppThe official said Russia was proposing to take back the MiG-29 jets, which were delivered to Algeria in 2006 and 2007, but [...]
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HAGATNA, Guam – A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday at an air base on Guam, but both pilots ejected safely and were in good condition, the Air Force said.p class=”textBodyBlack”span id=”byLine”/spanIt was the first crash of a B-2 bomber, said Capt. Sheila Johnston, a spokeswoman for Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in [...]
p class=”first”Two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter planes collided in midair on Wednesday over the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Florida, during a training mission, officials said./ppThe U.S. Coast Guard recovered one pilot and a second was reported missing after the one-seat F-15C Eagles crashed at 4:21 p.m. EST (2121 GMT) about 50 miles [...]
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Boeing is touting an even newer version of its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet that, paired with an advanced sixth-generation fighter in the works at the company, would give customers what Boeing deems a better package of capabilities than Lockheed Martin’s combination of the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.br /br /The idea is that customers [...]
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Air superiority fighters:
An air superiority fighter is a type of fighter aircraft intended to enter and seize control of enemy airspace. Air superiority fighters have long range and have BVR (Beyond Visual Range) capabilities. They generally take more scramble time(i.e they generally take more time to be mission ready). The maintainable cost is also high.
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Japan’s plans to build a stealth fighter demonstrator have been set back after funding for the project was cut in the fiscal year 2008 defence budget. The Mitsubishi ATD-X project has been allocated ¥7 billion ($66 million) of the ¥49.9 billion requested by the Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI).br /br /The plan to build [...]
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div class=”story-para”Of the $515.4 billion the Bush administration is requesting for its final budget go-around, the U.S. Air Force expects to get a total of $143.9 billion in 2009, including $11.9 billion for space programs./div div class=”story-para”That’s up 6.9 percent from the $134.6 billion that Congress granted the air service for the current fiscal year, [...]
