Aviation News
Qatar has just announced a massive spending program to buy 24 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and three Boeing 737 Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, 22 NH90 helicopters, one PAC-3 air defense system, and two A330 MRTT tankers.
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Poland has decided to push forward the award of its air defense missile system competition by several months.
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British Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond said London is willing to send it Eurofighters to Lithuania to bolster the NATO-led Baltic Air Policing Mission there.
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Flightglobal reports that Israel is taking steps to boost its air defense system against unmanned aircraft that may one day be used to attack the country.
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Today, Malaysian newspaper New Straits Time cited unnamed officials as saying that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 had flown at an altitude of 5,000ft or even lower after it made an air turn back and flew west.
Continue reading ““Terrain masking” by #MH370, how it could have been done”