Aviation News
Moscow’s plan to restart production and procure new Tu-160 bombers won’t happen until after 2023, said Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov.
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Lebanon has requested via the Foreign Military Sale route to buy 1,000 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles.
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NAVAIR announced that a P-8A equipped with the new APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) radar has made its first flight on May 20.
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Canada bought nine VH-71 helicopters from the United States in 2011 to be used as spares for its search-and-rescue Cormorant helicopter, the Royal Canadian Air Force has determined that seven of those helicopters are airworthy and wants to add them to the flight line.
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