ISIL forces managed to destroy two Syrian Arab Air Force L-39s at Deir ez-Zor on Jan. 6 using anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM).
Category: Air Force
McKinney mid-air collision victim was also last person selected to fly SR-71
One of the three people killed in a mid-air collision of two private aircraft near Aero Country Airport in McKinney on Dec. 31 was retired LTC. Greg “Spanky” Barber. Barber was the last person selected to pilot the SR-71 before the supersonic spy plane was retired.
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Deborah Lee James: F/A-18 and F-35 not interchangeable
U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told Defense News in a Jan. 5 interview that the service “does not view the F/A-18 and the F-35 to be substitutable at all.”
By U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Darin Russell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Talks on selling Kfir to Argentina will restart
Flight Global says a third round of discussions to sell the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Kfir fighter to Argentina will soon resume.
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By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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DRDO AEW&CS to be inducted into service next month
The Indian Air Force will induct the country’s first indigenous airborne early warning aircraft – DRDO Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEWACS) – later this month.
By Pritishp333 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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