Tag: Fighter Jets

Canada to accept bid from Boeing for new fighter jets

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada said Thursday it was allowing Boeing to submit a bid to replace the country’s ageing F-18 fleet, after an earlier trade dispute between the American manufacturer and Ottawa. The announcement came a month after the US International Trade Commission rejected a complaint filed by Boeing against its Canadian rival Bombardier, demanding nearly 300 percent anti-dumping duties on the C Series passenger plane. Boeing, which makes the Super Hornet, is one […]

Canada to buy 18 used Australian jets

by Michel Comte © Agence France-Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada announced Tuesday it would buy 18 used Australian jets instead of new Boeing Super Hornets, signaling limits in its unwavering friendship with its US neighbor. A little more than a year after saying it would buy 18 Super Hornets for more than $5 billion, and amid trade tensions, Ottawa formally rejected the deal in favor of used planes from Australia. Senior government and military officials said […]

Chinese military planes intercept US aircraft: reports

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted an American military plane over the East China Sea, media in the United States reported Thursday, citing US officials. NBC News reported that the US aircraft, a WC-135 Constant Phoenix, was conducting a routine mission in international airspace Wednesday when it was intercepted over the East China Sea by two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft. The WC-135 is a so-called “sniffer plane” designed to scan […]

20 bandits “killed” as fighter jets pound Abu Sayyaf camp in Basilan

(PNA) — Twenty bandits were “killed” as the Philippine Air Force’s newly acquired FA-50 fighter jets pounded and destroyed a camp of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Sumisip, Basilan province, military officials said. Lt. Col. Andrew Bacala Jr., Army’s 4th Special Forces Battalion commander, on Friday said the fighter jets “delivered deadly payload, inflicting heavy casualties to the ASGs.”“The ASGs were shocked. They abandoned most of their personal belongings and left unfinished meal at […]

South Korea delivers fighter jets

South Korea will deliver two fighter jets to the Philippines on Friday. According to the Philippine Air Force, said fighter jets were ordered by the country as part of its modernization program. Said fighter jets will land on Clark Air Field in Pampanga and will provide the PAF with supersonic capability. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)