Aviation News
Seven Americans and four Afghans were killed when their Black Hawk helicopter went down during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday.
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Japan and the United States are both discussing the potential multimillion-dollar updates to two Atago-class destroyers to enable them to fire the SM-3 Block IIA.
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Tony Ogilvy, Saab’s Aeronautics UK General Manager and Head of the Sea Gripen Design Centre, told IHS Jane’s that phase one design work for the Sea Gripen has been completed.
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The CV-22 medevac demonstration with USS Wyoming in June.
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Embraer has delivered the first EMB 145 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) to India.
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