Ireland’s Minister for Defense Alan Shatter revealed that the country deployed its own UAVs to Africa in 2008 and one was lost there.
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Russian Air Force lost MiG-31
A Russian Air Force MiG-31 crashed on Dec. 14 in the Far Eastern Primorye region. The aircraft just underwent maintenance before the crash.
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Japan to buy 17 V-22s and 3 RQ-4s under new five-year Mid-Term Defense Program
Japan’s new five-year Mid-Term Defense Program will include purchase of 17 V-22s and three Global Hawks.
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Lockheed Martin hopes to keep F-16 line opened till 2020
Bill McHenry, Lockheed’s head of F-16 business development, told Reuters that the company has enough orders to keep the production line opened till later 2017.
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Rafale out of Brazil’s F-X2 competition
Folha de Sao Paulo daily reported Saturday that Dassault’s Rafale fighter is no longer being considered for Brazil’s F-X2 competition.
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