Aviation News
Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday that the F-16 who shot down a drone entering from the south was only successful after a second Python missile shot.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is toying with an idea of having an aircraft carrier produce its own jet fuel while at sea.
Continue reading “U.S. Navy wants to convert sea water into JP-5”
Russia and Iraq have signed an arms deal worth $4.2 billion for Mi-28NE attack helicopters and Pantsir-S1 short-range air defense systems.
Continue reading “Iraq inks $4.3 billion arms deal with Russia, buying 30 Mi-28NEs and Pantsir-S1 systems”
Turkish news agency Dogan is quoting unidentified military sources as saying that at least 25 F-16 fighters have been sent to reinforce Diyarbakir air base in the country’s southeast.
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KAI is in talks with Abu Dhabi’s state-run investment corporation Mubadala Development Company on setting up a flight school in UAE and train the air force’s pilots using the T-50.
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