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An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the 85th Test Evaluation Squadron shoots an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM over testing ranges near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., March 19, 2019. The AMRAAM is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. (Senior Airman Joshua Hoskins/U.S. Air Force).
When a Chinese spy balloon entered U.S. airspace over Idaho on Jan. 31, the U.S.
In March 1999, NATO air forces intervened in the ongoing war in Yugoslavia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the country abandoned communism and tried to establish itself as a Yugoslav republic. Not all former members of the Soviet-backed Yugoslavia, which included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Slovenia wanted to take part in the new union.
The top-scoring American fighter ace of World War II was Richard Bong, who notched up 40 air-to-air kills. The top scorer for the British Royal Air Force scored 38. The number one French fighter pilot had 33 kills. The top-scoring pilot for Nazi Germany was Erich Hartmann with an astonishing 352 aerial victories.
Germany was not just lacking in the materials and manpower needed to make new aircraft, they were also short of pilots with the skills to fly the aircraft it did have.
The 2002 movie We Were Soldiers is a rare example of Hollywood making an effort to depict a war accurately. Dissatisfied with previous portrayals of the Vietnam War, director Randall Wallace was “determined to get it right this time.” Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once..And Young by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway, both of whom were present at the Battle of Ia Drang that the film depicts, We Were Soldiers had the best source material on the subject. While the movie maintains a high degree of accuracy for a screen adaptation, even being used as an instructional reference in the U.
Miller said the defense cuts he’s suggesting would only reduce spending to pre-9/11 levels and that is a feasible goal.
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The 898th Brigade Engineer Battalion of the Washington National Guard’s (NG) Charlie Company has carried out its first tactical air movement radio retransmissions exercise.
The exercise was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, according to Joseph Siemandel, Joint Force Headquarters – Washington National Guard.
The unit partnered with the 1st Battalion and 168th General Support Aviation for the drill.
The first-of-its-kind training helped signal professionals from the NG unit practise retransmission between radios.
The DRDO is designing a lightweight manportable anti-tank guided missile (MPATGM) for the Indian Army. The MPATGM, in its current form, weighs 14.5 kg. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is designing a lightweight manportable anti-tank guided missile (MPATGM) for the Indian Army, a DRDO official told
Janes
at the Aero India 2023 show, which is being held in Bangalore from 13 to 17 February.
The official said that the development of MPATGM is not completed because of its weight.
India’s FICVs will be equipped with American aerospace company Lockheed Martin’s Javelin ATGMs. Javelin is a medium-range, manportable, shoulder-fired, fire-and-forget, lock-on before launch ATGM system. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)
India’s Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicles (FICVs) will be equipped with American aerospace company Lockheed Martin’s Javelin anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), the company told
Janes
at the Aero India 2023 show, which is being held in Bangalore from 13 to 17 February.
The TASL is increasing its network of manufacturing partners in India to manufacture 40 C295 aircraft by 2031. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal)
Tata Air Systems Limited (TASL) and Airbus Defence and Space are aiming to complete a new factory in India to produce Airbus C295 Persuader transport aircraft by 2024.
Speaking to Janes at the Aero India 2023 show in Bangalore, TASL said that the factory is expected to produce the first airworthy Indian-made C295 by 2026. The factory, at Vadodara in the Indian state of Gujarat, will serve as a final assembly line (FAL).
The Russian military and infamous private military company Wagner Group are losing as many as 5,000 men killed and wounded every week.
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