Airbus, Elta offer AEW conversion to existing C295 operators

Igo Licht, Elta’s vice-president of marketing and sales, said operators of the Airbus C295 have been offered to convert their transport aircraft into a AEW platform equipped with a Elta AESA radar.

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Pentagon’s chief weapons tester said his colleagues lied about the F-35 program

Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, said in a memo to Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, that a draft response to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain had contained misleading information.

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