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At a meeting chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu disclosed that 162 new and upgraded weapons were tested in Russia’s military campaign in Syria and 10 of these had flaws that were not revealed during trials.
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met incoming U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 21 and the aerospace company has promise him that the cost of replacing Air Force One with the 747-8 will not exceed $4 billion.
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The Kazakhstan Air Force lost a Su-27 fighter on Dec. 21 during a nighttime training flight near Taldykorgan, Almaty region.
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For the past 14 months, the B-1B crews assigned to 9th Bomb Squadron have been busy helping the Joint Interagency Task Force South hunt for drug smugglers in the East Pacific and West Caribbean Ocean.
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Usually, it takes up to 48 hours for a Expeditionary Fighter Squadron to generate combat air power after arriving at the deployment location. The 134th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron’s recent deployment to Southwest Asia only took 15 hours.
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