Aviation News
South Korea plans to select a winner for the FX-III fighter competition by the end of June, however this in increasingly unlikely due to an investigation into a local arms brokerage firm on suspicion of leaking classified military information on the contest.
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Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd (KAI) has won a $1.02 billion order to supply an undisclosed number of FA-50s to RoKAF.
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RAF Leuchars “Battle of Britain At Home Day” airshow on Sept. 7 could be the last one before the base transitions to an army base.
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According to Ian Easton, Research Fellow at the Project 2049 Institute, Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau “may have conducted successful operations against China that specifically focused on collecting information about UAVs.”
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French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed that Paris will join London to develop a new helicopter-borne anti-ship missile.
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