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Last year the Pentagon removed its highest ranking female figther pilot, Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop, from her position as the director of the Defense Department’s Special Access Programs Central Office (SAPCO). Now, Air Force Times has obtained the Office of Inspector General’s investigative report on her dismissal from the post.
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Australian Defense reports that the Boeing Australia’s Loyal Wingman prototype unmanned aircraft has been spotted out in the open and is being prepared for taxi trials.
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Spotters in Taiwan recently caught a couple of RoCAF F-16s airborne carrying live AIM-120 missiles along with LANTIRN navigation and targeting pod system and ALQ-184 jamming pods. The media had speculated that Taiwan has evolve its air combat tactics to use the LANTIRN pod for targeting Chinese aircraft. However, the story has been refuted by the Ministry of National Defense, the jets were simply airborne for a photo shot for next year’s calendar.
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Six Israeli Air Force F-16s have landed at Nörvenich airbase, Germany for the service’s first joint exercise in the country with the Luftwaffe.