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Update: It’s a regular JL-9.
Guizhou Aviation Industry Import/Export Company (GAIEC) has published a series of images of the JL-9 on the production floor and the wings clearly show the folding mechanism.
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met incoming U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 21 and the aerospace company has promise him that the cost of replacing Air Force One with the 747-8 will not exceed $4 billion.
By U.S. Air Force File Photo. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Kazakhstan Air Force lost a Su-27 fighter on Dec. 21 during a nighttime training flight near Taldykorgan, Almaty region.
By Dmitriy Pichugin [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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Indian scientists were forced to destroy a Nirbhay cruise missile during the type’s four test attempt, less than four minutes after launch.
Photo: DRDO
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For the past 14 months, the B-1B crews assigned to 9th Bomb Squadron have been busy helping the Joint Interagency Task Force South hunt for drug smugglers in the East Pacific and West Caribbean Ocean.
By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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