Russian planes are really messing with European ATC - military flights with no transponders on - NATO has moved fighters into eastern Europe - 1 near miss with jetliner a few months ago - worse provocation since Cold War - France has halted delivery of 2 helicopter carriers to Russia - Russia has recently added several mobile ICBM platoons
US - working on weather radar for planes that can see features of runways (lights alongside runways and approach light structures) - may allow synthetic vision of landing approaches to 150 feet above the ground US - may revive anti ballistic missile design programs - need to counter Russian hypersonic missiles - US may spend $1B US - F35 is moving forward - 3 repair facilities being constructed in Europe for F35s - Belgium and Netherlands might buy F35s for 2020s (I am working from memory here - this stuff is very technical - I dont have the time or energy to write it up well - if you can get ahold of AWST, as always, I highly recommend it) AWST = Aviation Week and Space Technology - apparently they no longer post full articles for free on the Internet general info -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
