Aviation News
Saudi Press Agency quoted a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen as saying that one of the coalition’s warplane came under attack over Saada airport on Mar. 21. The jet managed to return home safely.
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A Indonesian Air Force fighter pilot was killed while practising at Tunggul Wulung Airport in Cilacap, Central Java in a Super Decathlon on Mar. 20.
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The director of U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office has an update on plans to install high-powered lasers on various platforms and he mentioned that putting it on the KC-135 is “still in the infancy stage.”
By: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has issued a request for information (RFI) on behalf of the Marine Corps, seeking for a new AESA radar for the latter’s F/A-18C/D fleet.
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By Sgt. Marcy Sanchez [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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