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Chief-of-staff of the Republic of China Air Force, Gen. Cheng RongFeng, told legislators today that the service spoke to Dassault in June this year regarding the upgrade of its Mirage 2000-5 fleet.
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The Hindu reports that New Delhi is making an attempt to buy second-hand Mi-35s and donate them to Afghanistan.
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The Bulgarian government was forced to suspend a plan to overhaul the country’s MiG-29s with RSK MiG after Ukraine’s Ukrinmash filed an appeal with the country’s competition regulator.
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For several years, the U.S. Navy’s MH-60S community has been grappling with an issue with the gunner’s seat that has “directly contributed to medical groundings, degraded mission performance and a growing number of chronic back injuries among service members.”
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The U.S. Air Force has given Lockheed Martin a $961 million, five-year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the sustainment and upgrades for its fleet of 683 Sniper pods.
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