Alert 5

Australia has lifted the grounding of its Tiger attack helicopters.

Tokyo is mulling plans to deploy its Aegis destroyers closer to North Korea to improve the chances of intercepting a North Korean rocket.
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Link to two pictures showing a B-52 from Minot AFB being refueled by a French aerial tanker and flying formation with French fighters.

Lockheed Martin is offering its C-130XJ with maximum local content to the South African Air Force.

Vandenberg Air Force Base has released a statement stating that the second X-37B is expected to return to Earth sometime between early- to mid-June.

A U.S. Navy T-45 trainer has crashed about 45 miles southwest of NAS Kingsville, both pilots ejected and were recovered.

Northrop Grumman and L-3 MAS have announced plans to offer a variant of the Global Hawk dubbed “Polar Hawk” to Canada for surveillance of its Arctic territories.

Romania’s Minister of Defense Corneliu Dobritoiu says his county could opt for second-hand F-16s from Netherlands or Portugal.
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A U.S. Army Apache crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday and two crew members were killed.

U.S. Marines from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 made history on May 22 when they hook cargo to the unmanned K-MAX helicopter while it was in hover mode.