Aviation News
Italian Air Force flew two Eurofighters along with a lone KC-767 to Šiauliai Ari Base, Lithuania to familiarize themselves with the environment ahead of Italy’s air policing mission there in 2015.
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord is enhancing the surveillance of low flying aircraft in its training area by having Saab installed its Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system.
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Newsweek is running a story on how Saudi Arabia acquired DF-21 ballistic missiles from China with help from the CIA.
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Six Norwegian F-16s arrived in Iceland on Jan. 27 to take on NATO’s air policing mission there.
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Britain has given AgustaWestland two contracts worth £760 million to convert 25 Air Force AW101 Merlin helicopters for naval use and a five-year maintenance contract for the Apache AH Mk.1.
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