Aviation News
Two Chinese H-6 bombers, likely PLANAF H-6DGs, flew between Miyokojima and Okinawa islands today. The JASDF scrambled F-15s from Naha air base to shadow the bombers.
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Update: H-6G not D. Note the YJ-12 launch rail on inner pylon.
DARPA and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has successfully fired the prototype Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a B-1B on Aug. 27.
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DigitalGlobe has approached the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to relax rules on selling higher resolution satellite photos to non-U.S. government clients.
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Former crew members of Chinook tail number 756 were reunited with their helicopter at Fort Bragg this summer.
Continue reading “Vietnam War veterans reunited with Chinook 46 years later”
The Russian military is rushing to construct a six-meter-high, three-kilometer-long dam around Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO) factory in the far east as flood waters threatened it.
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