Aviation News
A veteran U.S. Air Force pilot took AF-02 out to the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 14 this year for a simulated dogfight against a F-16D and he had troubles defeating his opponent using the new jet.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joely Santiago [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The first batch of Israeli air defense operators for the David Sling system has undergone training, the Ministry of Defense announced on its website.
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By United States Missile Defense Agency [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Jose Vallim Guerreiro told RIA Novosti that his country is to purchase the Pantsir air defense system as early as in the first half of 2016.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/372) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Ukraine has plans to build an indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle to survey enemy positions and it has a crowd-sourcing campaign to fund the program.
Reuters reported that Myanmar Air Force removed Major General Lwin Oo as chief-of-staff after a stray bomb landed in China and killed farmers three months ago.
By M Radzi Desa [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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