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Chilean Air Force Seeks To Buy Six Embraer Military Jets
By Erik,
Chilean Air Force Seeks To Buy Six Embraer Military Jets
The Wall Street Journal - 8/25/2010
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Chile's Air Force is considering the acquisition of six KC-390 military cargo jets from Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer (ERJ, EMBR3.BR), the company said Tuesday in a statement. In addition, the company said that Chile's Defense Ministry plans to help Embraer to develop the KC-390. Embraer is developing the KC-390 tactical transport for the Brazilian Air Force and offers military variants of its ERJ145 regional jet used for maritime and ground patrol and airborne early warning.
The company did not unveil an estimate price for the planes.
Earlier this year, the Brazilian Air Force announced a plan to buy 28 KC-390 cargo jets.
The Wall Street Journal
Are you interested in participating at CombatACE?
By Erik,
Are you interested in participating at CombatACE?
CombatACE -- 22 August 2010 by Erik Thompson
We are currently looking for a few good people who are interested in participating as news staff editors to help us out with creating, referencing, and posting our daily news.
I'm aware there are many more relevant and interesting topics we should report on not to mention the interest of our own content which is why we are looking for participants. If you share the passion and interest in reporting and developing news and have a few minutes a day to spare we want to hear from you.
A principle position I'd like to fill is Editor in Chief . As a key participant you should possess the interest and ability to manage a small staff and be willing to be responsible to vendors and news feed sites.
If you would like to participate with either submitting news articles or developing the news section as a Staff Editor we want to hear from you as well.
Those interested please reply here with a short note on what you'd like to help with. Applicants must possess an ability to write and proof read concisely and accurately in English. If you would like to share news in a language other than English the same native abilities would apply. Ideally all interested like to keep current and knowledgeable in a segment of topical news for this site (ie gaming hardware, software, military aircraft, gaming news, and related content).
Be brave, be bold, be part of our community here at CA.
West Point ranked high in Forbes picks for best colleges
By Erik,
West Point ranked high in Forbes picks for best colleges
Defense Talk — By Agence France-Presse on August 20, 2010 at 2:05 am
WEST POINT, N.Y.: A report released Aug. 11 by Forbes ranked the U.S. Military Academy at West Point fourth in the country in their annual ranking of America's Best Colleges.
"West Point is again honored and pleased to be selected as one of America's top five best colleges. It is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our exceptional cadets, faculty and staff operating in world-class facilities. This excellence, as recognized by Forbes, is a key element in preparing our cadets for the challenges they will face as future Army officers," said West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon.
"We review just nine percent of the 6,600 accredited post-secondary institutions in the U.S., so appearing on our list at all is an indication that a school meets a high standard," Forbes stated in their release.
Forbes uses more than 10 factors in compiling these rankings, with no single factor counting as much as 20 percent. The rankings are objectively determined, with the only subjective judgments being those of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Forbes as to which factors to include and the weights to be used in evaluating each factor.
The Center for College Affordability and Productivity in conjunction with Forbes, compiled its college rankings using five general categories, with several components within each general category. The weightings are listed below:
1. Student Satisfaction 27.5 percent
2. Postgraduate Success 30 percent
3. Student Debt 17.5 percent
4. Four-year Graduation Rate 17.5 percent
5. Competitive Awards 7.5 percent
Also, U.S. News & World Report announced its "2011 America's Best Colleges Rankings" this week and ranked West Point the "Top Public Liberal Arts College" for the third consecutive year.
West Point was also named the third-best "Undergraduate Engineering Program," where a doctorate is not offered, tying with Cooper Union (N.Y.). Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Ind., and Harvey Mudd College, Calif., were first and second, respectively.
In the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs category, West Point's Civil Engineering Program was ranked second, Mechanical was tied for second and Electrical tied-for third.
"We are very pleased with U.S. News & World Report's acknowledgment of the quality of the educational experience at West Point," said Dean of the Academic Board Brig. Gen. Tim Trainor. "We are proud of our nationally renowned curriculum and the well-earned recognition our engineering program receives from independent organizations."
The engineering rankings are based solely on a spring 2010 peer survey of deans and senior faculty that asked them to rate each program they are familiar with on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). West Point's average was 4.1.
Out of 266 liberal arts colleges that U.S. News categorized as awarding more than half of their degrees in the arts and sciences, West Point was listed as tied for 16th-best Liberal Arts College overall, when combining both private and public colleges. Williams College, Mass., was ranked number one.
In other categories U.S. News ranked West Point second in The High School Counselors' Picks. West Point was also ranked second in two categories under Key Criteria in Judging Schools, Lowest Acceptance Rate and Highest Proportion of Classes Under 20.
Defense Talk
Halo: Reach getting matchmaking in its campaign mode
By Erik,
Halo: Reach getting matchmaking in its campaign mode
Destructoid -- 22 August 2010 by Matthew Razak
Here's some good news for all of you out there who hated the fact that you couldn't just hop into a game of Halo 3's campaign through a matchmaking system. Halo: Reach will indeed have matchmaking for its single-player. This means that instead of only being able to charge through the campaign with your friends you can charge through it with anyone.
My plan? Find someone ridiculously better than me at the game by doing matchmaking on Legendary as much as possible then ride his coattails to victory and glorious Achievements I don't actually deserve. Then I can roll up to places like I'm some sort of Halo OG and get mad props from my peeps.
My street cred aside, is there anyone who doesn't see this as a very welcome feature?
Halo: Reach will feature campaign matchmaking
That VideoGame Blog -- 21 August, 2020 by Eddie Makuch
Bungie has announced that when the hotly hyped Halo: Reach hits shelves next month, not only will the Firefight mode get matchmaking support, but the campaign will too.
Wait, what? Yes. When you pick up your copy of Reach on September 14, you’ll be able to enlist the help of a random soldier and fight across the game’s entire campaign.
For reference, Halo 3 didn’t include campaign matchmaking (much to my annoyance). You could hop into a game with an Xbox Live friend, but you couldn’t search for a buddy. Also, Halo games on Legendary difficulty are notoriously difficult and the decision to include matchmaking for campaign will make sure no one has to play alone.
Destructoid TVGB
SAAB Unveils Thai Air Defence Solutions
By Erik,
SAAB Unveils Thai Air Defence Solutions
Air Force News — By Saab on August 19, 2010 at 1:49 am
At a ceremony at Saab’s factory in Linköping today, Saab unveiled the Thai integrated air defence system for its Thai customer. The ceremony was held to celebrate the contract between Sweden and Thailand.
Many prominent guests attended the event including Commander in Chief, ACM Itthaporn Subhawong from the Royal Thai Air force, Gunnar Holmgen, General Director for the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and Åke Svensson, CEO, for Saab.
The Royal Thai Air Force has procured an integrated air defence system with Gripen C/D, the ERIEYE airborne early warning system and a Command and Control C2 system including data link communication. In combination with bilateral Co-operation mainly focused on technology transfer, this will provide Thailand with the foundation for an advanced network based defence system.
The Royal Thai Air Force will receive six of the latest version Gripen C/D multirole fighter aircraft at the beginning of 2011. One ERIEYE Airborne Early Warning radar system aboard a Saab 340 aircraft and one additional Saab 340 aircraft will be delivered in December 2010. One Command and Control C2 system including equipment for three ground based Radio sites will be delivered in March 2011.
The first Thai Gripen aircraft made its maiden flight on 16 September 2009 and Thai pilots, technicians and aviation mechanics responsible for maintenance and support of the aircraft have started their training at the Armed Force Technical School (Air Force) in Halmstad and at F7 Såtenäs.
Air Force News
Intelligence experts analyse 'North Korean fighter jet crash'
By Erik,
An image posted on the internet by a Chinese citizen allegedly shows a North Korean aircraft that went down in Liaoning Province, China Photo: EPA
Intelligence experts analyse 'North Korean fighter jet crash'
By Peter Foster, Beijing
Intelligence experts are analysing reports that a North Korean fighter jet crash-landed in northern-eastern China on Tuesday afternoon, leading to speculation of a failed defection attempt by the plane’s pilot.
Photographs of the crash site posted on a microblog on China’s sina.com, one of the country’s leading web portals, appeared to show the remains of a MiG-21 fighter with distinctive North Korean air force markings on its fuselage.
China’s official news agency, Xinhua, partially confirmed the incident in a one-sentence report but stated only that an aircraft of “unidentified nationality” had crashed in Lagu county, Liaoning Province on August 17, and “the case was under investigation”.
However Mike Gething, aviation analyst with IHS Janes, the specialist defence publisher, confirmed to The Telegraph that the picture showed a North Korea jet. “It is a MiG-21 'Fishbed’ and from the markings, it is North Korean,” he said.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing intelligence sources, also said the aircraft appeared to be a North Korean fighter jet, adding that the pilot had been killed.
“The pilot died on the spot,” Yonhap quoted the intelligence source as saying, adding that the pilot was the only person aboard the craft.
The report quoted a second source as saying the plane may have lost its direction while attempting to fly to Russia to escape from North Korea.
China has a repatriation pact with North Korea and frequently hands economic refugees back to Pyongyang, which could explain why the pilot decided to choose Russia as a destination, the report added.
North Korea, reeling under the impact of international sanctions following a series of illegal missile and nuclear tests, is facing chronic food shortages that have started to affect even senior officials and army staff, according to reports.
Yonhap added that the North Korean soldiers defecting from the North has increased in recent months as food shortages deepen further.
Pictures from the crash site approximately 155 miles inside Chinese territory showed the plane, still largely intact, had ploughed into a field of maize, with villagers and rescue workers apparently looking on.
The incident provoked a wave of excitable speculation among the Chinese, asking why the plane was apparently allowed to get so far into Chinese airspace and wondering whether it had crashed or been shot down.
Comments on Tiexue.net — a popular military fans site that translates as 'ironblood.net’ traded possible explanations.
“It is OK if it was shot down to the ground,” said one member, “But if it crashed, what is our Air Force doing be noted the aircraft was already 250km into our territory” Another speculated further. “Definitely it was flown by a defector! Possibility 1: it was forced down due to lack of oil or machinery breaks; possibility 2: it refused our contact and was shot down by our Air Force”.
Defence experts estimate that North Korea possess up to 120 later-variant MiG-21s — a now-ageing aircraft known as “Fishbed” to Nato forces and produced in large numbers between 1959 and 1985, becoming the most produced combat aircraft since the end of the Korean War.
According to an assessment by Jane’s, North Korean air force pilots manage to fly only 15-25 hours per year because of a shortage of aviation fuel. A MiG-21 was reported to have crashed in North Korea in April last year while on a reconnaissance mission.
Telegraph.co.uk
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