Australia: Six billion flight of fancy

Posted at: Wed Mar 7th, 2007

The Government's Super Hornet purchase is an expensive and unnecessary triumph of politics over strategic knowledge. IT'S Brendan Nelson's $6 billion bonanza. On Tuesday afternoo...

Northrop to Provide Finnish Air Force F-18s with LITENING Targeting System

Posted at: Wed Mar 7th, 2007

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., March 7, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Finnish Air Force (FiAF) has announced the selection of Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) third-generation LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) system for its FiAF F-18 Mid-life Update 2 p...

Better intel boosts Air Force munitions drops, sorties flown

Posted at: Wed Mar 7th, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFNEWS) -- In 2006, the Air Force dropped more than 1,700 munitions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. A year earlier, the Air Force dropped only 176 munitions as part of that same operation. The increase is due to better intelligence, said Lt. Gen. Gary L. North, ...

First ASRAAM Firings from a Front Line RAF Eurofighter Typhoon

Posted at: Wed Mar 7th, 2007

The Eurofighter Typhoon has passed another milestone on its journey to become a fully operational Royal Air Force (RAF) multi-role combat aircraft, with the first firings of Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAM) from a front line squadron a...

New Weapons Targeter Equips Harrier GR9 In Afghanistan

Posted at: Wed Mar 7th, 2007

The Ministry of Defence is buying new U.S.-built targeting pods for its GR9 Harrier front line jets. Lockheed Martin in Florida is providing Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) under the terms of an Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) issued b...