HMS Illustrious left Portsmouth on Monday and Apache attack helicopters and Chinooks landed on board the ship that night.
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Day: October 3, 2012
Tyndall Air Force Base transitions to ACC
Tyndall Air Force Base transitioned from Air Education and Training Command to Air Combat Command Oct. 1 as the base will gain a combat-coded F-22 squadron from Holloman Air Force Base.
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First crew member of HMS Queen Elizabeth named
Leading Hand Claire Butler, a Middlesbrough woman, has become the first crew member of the Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.
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NAVAIR buys additional 22 Kestrel Surveillance Systems
NAVAIR has given Logos Technologies $111.8 million for an additional 22 Kestrel wide-area persistent surveillance systems.
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France takes delivery of first Rafale with RBE2 AESA
The DGA (French defenceprocurement agency) has officially taken delivery of the Rafale C137, the first production Rafale equipped with the Thales RBE2 AESA radar, at Dassault Aviation’s Mérignac establishment near Bordeaux.
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