Aviation News
A video taken by an aircraft engineer shows an unknown object buzzing a formation of Chilean F-5s during a change of command ceremony at El Bosque Air Base in Santiago on Nov. 5, 2010.
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DARPA wants the defense industry to come up with cheap mini-satellites that can give soldiers on the ground intelligence at the “press of a button.”
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A small number of F-16s from the Polish Air Force are in Israel for joint training with the Israeli Air Force in the Negev. This is the first joint exercise between both countries’ air forces.
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Fox News reported that the strange incident of stolen pickup truck that crashed at Camp Bastion as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s C-17 was landing was an attack by an Afghan interpreter.
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Seventeen U.S. senators have wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urging him to cancel a contract to buy 21 Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan Air Force.
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