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A Russian military aircraft entered Japanese airspace off the northernmost main island of Hokkaido for 16 seconds and forced the JASDF to scramble fighters.
By Angelique Perez, U.S. Air Force (http://www.kadena.af.mil/; gallery; image) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Lockheed Martin and Roketsan are on course to have the SOM-J cruise missile fly on board a Turkish F-35 in 2017.
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The U.S. Air Force is on course to field a podded, tactical laser on the AC-130W by 2020, and eventually the fighter community will get a laser weapon as well.
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Finnish F/A-18s, Hawks and two Swedish Gripens will operate from a road runway at Hosio sometime between Sept. 18-26.
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A Russian Mi-24 gunship crashed landed at Dvoevka airfield in the Smolensk region on Sept. 16. There were no injuries during the accident which happened at 08:30 p.m. Moscow time.
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