Pakistan to get eight Chinese JF-17 jets next year

Posted at: Thu Nov 23rd, 2006

Karachi: Pakistan is set to get the first batch of eight medium-technology fighter jets from China next year and the country would start manufacturing them locally from January 2008, a senior military official said yesterday. "We shall...have the first two [JF-17 Thunder fighter] airc...

Global Hawk flies first Beale ACC sortie

Posted at: Thu Nov 23rd, 2006

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- A newly-arrived RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle made its first operational Air Combat Command flight from here Nov. 21. The first Global Hawk flight from Beale signifies the end of the base's...