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USAF F-16s now able to receive in-flight software updates to its EW system

Posted on August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 by alert5

The U.S. Air Force has successfully demonstrated that the F-16’s Electronic Warfare System can receive software updates with new Mission Data File while airborne.

Lt. Col Zachary ‘Rooster’ Probst taxis a F-16C Fighting Falcon from the 84th Test and Evaluation Squadron before a test near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., June 14, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Raven)

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Su-35 crashes in Russia’s Far East

Posted on August 1, 2021 by alert5

A Russian Su-35 fighter has crashed into the Sea of Okhotsk on Jul. 31 after experiencing an engine failure in mid-air.

By Eugeny Polivanov (http://russianplanes.net/id169356) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

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Italian F-35B lands on ITS Cavour for the first time

Posted on August 1, 2021 by alert5

NF-16D VISTA redesignated as the X-62A

Posted on July 31, 2021 by alert5

The NF-16D Variable In-flight Simulator Aircraft (VISTA) has been redesignated as the X-62A last month.

Roger Tanner and Bill Gray pilot the Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, to Edwards AFB on Jan. 30, 2019 after receiving modifications and a new paint scheme. The aircraft was resdesignated from NF-16D to the X-62A, June 14, 2021 (U.S. Air Force photo by Christian Turner)

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EAATS receives UH-60V

Posted on July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 by alert5

The modernized UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter has arrived at Pennsylvania National Guard’s Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (EAATS).

Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler

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