Aviation News
Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Sunday that Syria’s first man in space, Gen. Mohammed Ahmed Fares, has defected to Turkey and joined the Free Syrian Army. A video on YouTube shows him visiting a rebel base in Aleppo, his hometown.
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Multiple UAVs could form a swarm using just a laptop and a military radio, researchers from Boeing and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) have shown.
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If all goes according to plan, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory will launch the third and probably the final X-51A flight on Aug. 14.
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Outgoing USAF chief of staff Gen. Norton Schwartz has suggested that the U.s. reduced its reserve stockpile of nuclear warheads.
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Embraer has delivered four A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to the Indonesian Air Force at a ceremony held in its facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo, Brazil.
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