Saab will open a Gripen Fighter Weapon School in South Africa to train Gripen pilots from all over the world.
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Boeing offers medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
Boeing is offering a business jet-size Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) to the global market. The company intents to take the technology in the P-8A and integrate it on a smaller aircraft.
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B-1 crew training to use JASSM in Pacific theater
An officer with the U.S. Air Force’s 28th Bomb Squadron revealed that B-1 crews have been training to use the AGM-158 JASSM in the Pacific theater.
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EADS threathens to pull out of USAF SAR helicopter contest
Sean O’Keefe, CEO of EADS North America, said his company could opt out of the U.S. Air Force competition to replace its HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter unless the rules of the competition is revamped.
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Boeing can deliver KC-46A to international customers as early as 2018
Boeing is looking into delivering the KC-46A to international customers as early as 2018.
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