United States combat aircraft briefly entered Somali airspace to support the rescue operation, if needed.
Admirals are enthusiasts for aircraft carriers and air marshals favour the latest combat aircraft.
China has built more than 500 fourth-generation combat aircraft and is moving its fifth-generation fighter into testing.
"United States combat aircraft briefly entered Somali airspace to support the rescue operation, if needed, " the president wrote.
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Indeed, it was French combat aircraft on Saturday that fired the first shots of the allied action in Libya.
Malik to strengthen Franco-Indian ties -- the Indians would love to have access to France's advanced combat aircraft technology.
In the past year it has taken delivery of a further eight upgraded Mirage III and Mirage V combat aircraft.
The Iraqi air force, devastated by the Gulf War, had only 80 to 100 operational combat aircraft, according to Periscope.
There are references to a Royal Navy with only 12 frigates and destroyers or an RAF with just 80 combat aircraft.
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Typically, debates about defence reviews focus on defence inputs in terms of the numbers of Army personnel, warships and combat aircraft.
Bill Clinton was president, and Defense Secretary Les Aspin had ordered an end to the ban on women flying combat aircraft.
Local residents had feared the base was being run down after it failed to win the new Joint Combat Aircraft in 2005.
It has been buying advanced combat aircraft, destroyers and submarines from Russia.
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Local residents had feared RAF St Mawgan was being run down after it failed to win the new Joint Combat Aircraft in 2005.
Liam Fox, the defence secretary at the time, had ordered that his review should retire one major type of combat aircraft in order to save money.
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"The discussion on the MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) contract are progressing well, " Mr Singh told a joint press conference with Mr Hollande, AFP news agency reported.
These days it is China that is stepping up defence spending, and the United Arab Emirates is set to field more advanced combat aircraft than the RAF.
He said the growth since the Second World War of "warbird" groups - people who restore and keep old combat aircraft - have kept such planes flying.
The civilian "Women Air Service Pilots" performed important military duties including ferrying combat aircraft from the factories where they were made to various air bases around the country.
Of course the UK can still rain nuclear destruction with Trident missiles, sustain a deployment of several thousand troops overseas or one of two dozen or so combat aircraft.
In their memorandum they agreed that an integrated European Aerospace and Defence Company should embrace civil, military transport and combat aircraft as well as helicopters, space launchers and guided weapons.
Though initially more expensive, producing half a dozen different combat aircraft and seeing which are best is better than decreeing that one will do the job and praying that it may.
The BAE division that would work with Lockheed is its prestigious combat-aircraft facility at Warton in northwest England.
To combat this threat, aircraft have a warning system which alerts the crew if the cabin altitude is approaching dangerous levels.
The committee heard evidence that entire combat units, such as aircraft and warships, could be rendered completely dysfunctional by an attack.
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Wartime service: During Operation Desert Storm, Keating was deputy commander, Carrier Air Wing 17, participating in combat operations in from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
During the Gulf War in the early 90s and again a decade later after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the Navy simultaneously deployed as many as six aircraft carriers for combat operations.
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So it opened up a number of what are called combat service support positions to women, particularly in the Army and the Marine Corps, and acknowledged that women would be flying aircraft engaged in combat missions.
Among BAE Systems' plans, for example, is the co-operative control of drones, which would allow a pilot in a jet to fly with a squadron of the robot aircraft on surveillance or combat missions.
The aircraft maintains the air-to-air combat ability of the main F-15 fighter as the pilot can detect and fire at other aircraft.
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