Aviation News
In the Pentagon’s contracts notification CR-062-16, published on Apr. 4, Bell is said to have been give a $170 million contract to produce nine AH-1Z attack helicopters for Pakistan.
By: Lance Cpl. Christopher O’Quin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Kuwait has finally signed the contract with Finmeccanica to buy 28 Eurofighters, nearly six months after the selection was announced.
Photo: Finmeccanica
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A new ELINT platform, based on the Falcon 2000 business jet, for the Republic of Korea Air Force will be making its first flight this week in Texas.
By JetPix [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Royal Air Force has elected to pull all 24 Eurofighter Tranche 1 aircraft from existing squadrons and assign them to two new squadrons that will be tasked with homeland air defense duties.
Photo: SAC Andrew Seaward/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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