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As Dassault prepares to make a sales pitch to the Indian Navy to buy its Rafale M, RAC MiG has toss its hat into the ring and a company spokeswoman said the manufacturer is ready to compete by counter-offering the MiG-29K.
Indian Navy [CC BY 2.5 in or CC BY 2.5 in], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Turkish military raid against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the province province of Şırnak turned up a RQ-20 unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Photos: Turkish Military
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Photos: India’s Ministry of Defense
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a RoCAF F-16 student pilot was involved in a crash in Arizona on Jan. 21. Base officials said the student was having air-to-air combat training with an instructor when his F-16, assigned to the 21st Fighter Squadron, went down for still unknown reasons.
By United States Air Force (USAF via http://www.taiwanairpower.org/af/f16.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Officials from KAI, Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), Lockheed Marin, the Indonesian Defense Ministry and PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) gathered in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province for the first KF-X/IF-X joint meeting on Jan. 21.
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Photos: KAI
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