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Indonesia still bargaining with Russia over the price of 8 Su-35s

Posted on December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 by alert5

Indonesia still wishes to buy eight Sukhoi Su-35 fighters from Russia and is negotiating with Moscow on the prices, Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu disclosed.

By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (Sukhoi Su-35S) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Boeing started installing APG-82 AESAs on Seymour Johnson’s F-15Es

Posted on December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 by alert5

Since September, Boeing engineers have been busy at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, swapping the old APG-70 radars on the F-15Es there and replacing them with the state-of-the-art APG-82 AESA radar.

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 336th Fighter Squadron sits in a hanger while members of the Radar Modernization Program Eagle modernization program team begin removing panels, Oct. 3, 2016, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. More than 90 jets at Seymour Johnson AFB will receive the radar modifications, projected to be completed in seven to nine years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Shawna L. Keyes)

Second-hand Italian Eurofighters enter the fray in Bulgaria’s fighter contest

Posted on December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 by alert5

Bulgaria’s fighter competition to replace its MiG-29 has been expanded to include second-hand Eurofighters from Italy.

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Indonesian Army Bell 412 pilot found alive 2 weeks after aircraft went down

Posted on December 10, 2016December 10, 2016 by alert5

The co-pilot of a Indonesian Army Bell 412 by villagers on Dec. 8, two weeks after his helicopter crashed while on a supply mission in North Kalimantan.

Photo: TNI AU
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10 years ago this month, Jon Beesley took the F-35 into the air for the first time

Posted on December 10, 2016 by alert5

Retired Lockheed Martin test pilot Jon Beesley was back in Fort Worth this month to celebrate the first flight of the F-35. Beesley flew the maiden flight of the F-35 on Dec. 15, 2006.