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South Korea eying mixed fleet of F-15s, F-35s

Reuters is reporting that South Korea could announce as early as next month a decision to buy F-35s and F-15s as well.
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A Swiss F/A-18 two-seater has crashed near a military airport in Alpnachstad on Oct. 23. The fate of the crew is unclear.

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Turkey says two of its F-16s were scrambled to intercept a Russian Il-20 off the port city of Ordu on the Black Sea coast on Oct. 23.

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A AH-6 from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) was in NAS Jacksonville on Oct. 16 to conduct over-water extraction training in the St. Johns River.
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Lockheed Martin is protesting this month’s award of the U.S. Navy’s air-and-missile-defense radar (AMDR) contract to Raytheon.

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