Military: July 2010 Archives

At the Farnborough Airshow today Boeing announced that earlier this month the 40-year-old Boeing F-15 has fired (photo below) an air-to-air missile for the first time from an internal weapons bay, demonstrating a critical new capability invented for the stealthy F-15 Silent Eagle.

In a flight test on 14 July, the F-15E1 testbed fired the missile from a newly integrated conformal weapons bay that was modified from a conformal fuel tank, Boeing vice-president and general manager of Global Strike Systems Shelley Lavender. Continue reading...

The first two-seat trainer example of India's Tejas naval light combat aircraft will be flown for the first time before the end of the year, following the roll out of platform NP1 in Bangalore on 6 July. Continue reading...

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 5 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user Peter Reoch. His photo depicts a RAF Chinook HC3 at night. Peter says his photo was taken at RAF Northolt's night photo shoot in March 2010. This photo was the first public appearance of the Chinook HC3 in RAF service and the image was shot as the helicopter warmed up ready to depart back to its home base at Odiham.

Meanwhile, BAE will roll out its Taranis unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator (artist's impression pictured below) during an event to be staged at its Warton facility on 12 July. Continue reading...