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Boeing secured a $1.9 billion deal to build 11 more P-8A maritime patrol aircraft for the U.S. Navy on Friday.
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A student pilot from Kharkiv Air Force University, Ukraine was killed when his L-39 crashed in Chuhuyiv, Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Sept. 22.
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Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said the Russian air base in Kyrgyzstan will soon be able to accomadate strategic bombers after improvements to the base is completed in six months.
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An Indonesian lawmaker overseeing defense and foreign affairs in Parliament said on Friday that the military should buy the Chinook first rather than the Apache.
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