Aviation News
Updated with video from Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin today that four Russian Navy ships based in the Caspian Sea had fired 26 cruise missiles at 11 targets in Syria.
By Vissarion (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Bell chief executive John Garrison believes the Fuji-Bell team’s winning bid for Japan’s UH-X program will prevail despite calls by Airbus to reevaluate the decision.
Source: Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.
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Sukhoi has delivered another batch of Su-34 fighter bombers to the Russian Ministry of Defense on Oct. 6. The aircraft left the factory at V.P.Chkalov Novosibirsk is believed to be destined for Morozovsk air base.
By Alex Beltyukov [CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors to the U.S. Army on Oct. 6.
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Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told lawmakers in Washington D.C. that it was a AC-130 gunship that fired on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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Photo: Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz
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