Aviation News
Japanese fighters were scrambled 156 times last year to intercept Chinese aircraft entering Japanese airspace. This is the highest number since the Defense Ministry started releasing such data by country in 2001.
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A PAC-3 missile interceptor successfully intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile target with help from the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) Apr. 25.
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The first two Galileo satellites have been declared full operational.
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $52.8 million, 27-month engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract to upgrade its ALQ-131 electronic attack pods.
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A Spanish Air Force C-101 jet trainer crashed on a training mission Thursday. Both pilots on board did not survive the crash.
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