Aviation News
A video posted on Liveleak.com purportedly shows a U.S. Army Apache pilot singing Don McLean’s 1972 hit American Pie as he launches a HellFire missile at a group of people in Afghanistan.
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DARPA is expanding its hypersonic research with a new Integrated Hypersonics (IH) program that will explore five different areas.
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French defense procurement agency DGA has successfully carried out the first qualification firing test of the laser terminal guidance version of the AASM Hammer modular air-to-ground weapon.
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The U.S. Navy and Raytheon have begun integrating the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer variant into the U.S. Navy’s fleet of F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets.
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Airbus has confirmed a Reuters story that its A400M will not be flying at the Farnborough airshow due to engine problems.
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