Aviation News
The UAE has not restart talks for Dassault’s Rafale fighter as French defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the sale was not on the agenda during his trip there over the weekend.
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At the Association of the U.S. Army conference, Boeing officials revealed that its AH-6 was demonstrated to the U.S. Army has a replacement for the OH-58D.
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The U.S. Air Force will complete its investigation into the crash of the third X-51A Waverider in December and has decided to fly the last Boeing-built vehicle.
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A Dutch independent think tank says Netherlands should continue participating in the F-35 fighter test program because pulling out at this stage would incur substantial costs.
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ScanEagle No. 678, one of several ScanEagles that provided real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery after Somali pirates assaulted the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama, has been donated to Seattle’s Museum of Flight.
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