Eighth Army participates in exercise in South Korea
By Army News Service on Monday, December 16th, 2013
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Airbus delivers first A400M military transport plane
After years of delays and enormous cost over-runs, Airbus on Monday delivers its first A400M military transport plane, turning in the large turboprop to France at its Spanish assembly plant. The pan-European aircraft maker expects the ceremony on the Airbus Military plant in Seville, southern Spain, to be the beginning of sales to military forces worldwide. The plane was actually delivered on August 1 however the official ceremony was being held Monday within the presence of French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Spain’s Prince Felipe. The French minister was to come back to an army base in Orleans aboard... Read More »
Army tests vehicle-mounted laser against multiple targets
The Army used a vehicle-mounted high-energy laser for the primary time to successfully engage greater than 90 mortar rounds and a number of other unmanned aerial vehicles in flight. The Army High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, or HEL MD, underwent multiple test events between Nov. 18 and Dec. 10, at White Sands Missile Range. This was the primary full-up demonstration of the HEL MD inside the configuration that included the laser and beam director mounted inside the vehicle, in response to officials of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command. They said a surrogate radar, the... Read More »
First Export of Korea’s Supersonic T-50i Aircraft to Indonesia
By KoreanInformation on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
US F-35 jet affected by shoddy quality controls: audit
The US military’s bureaucratic watchdog on Monday accused companies building the F-35 fighter of shoddy management that can jeopardize the reliability, performance and price of the aircraft. The Pentagon inspector general cited 363 problems within the design and manufacture of the costly Joint Strike Fighter, the hi-tech warplane that’s presupposed to function the backbone of the longer term American fleet. For america and 8 other countries backing the project, the report raises fresh questions on the technology and supreme ticket of the F-35, which has struggled with production delays and price overruns. The office that oversees the fighter project, the... Read More »