10 Oct - Crew Members Safe After Helicopter Mishap in Kuwait
An HH-60H Seahawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 15 based in Jacksonville, Fla., crashed immediately after takeoff Oct. 7 at approximately 9 a.m., local, while conducting a routine logistics mission at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
06 Oct - Airmen use GBU-38 in combat
Two F-16 Fighting Falcons recently performed a simultaneous GBU-38 release on the same target in central Iraq. The bombs precisely hit a two-story building with minimal collateral damage.
24 Sept - Russians attack Taiwanese trawler
A Russian helicopter fired missiles at a Taiwanese fishing trawler, and the coast guard seized the vessel and its crew after the boat was allegedly caught in Russian territorial waters with hundreds of tons of illegally culled fish, Russian state television reported.
20 Sept - Denel shows off Hawks
Production of South Africa's 24 new Hawk lead-in fighter trainer aircraft is well under way at Denel's production facility at Kempton Park. Denel and BAe Systems officials showed journalists nine of the British designed aircraft on Sunday in various stages of assembly in a large revamped hangar.
10 Oct - Maiden Flight of first Finnish NH90
The first NH90 destined for the Finnish Armed Forces took off for a successful maiden flight on september 15th at Eurocopter's production site and headquarter in Marignane. The aircraft is the first serial produced NH90 in France The flight was conducted by one test pilot and two flight engineers over more than one hour around the area of Marignane and Marseille under full fly-by-wire conditions, during which high speed levels were reached and the flight envelope of the basic aircraft was tested. The success of the campaign was observed by an official Finnish representative.
