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China’s Ministry of National Defense says that on Dec. 10, its military aircraft was on a long-range training mission to Miyako Strait and two Japanese F-15Js came along and fired flares close to its warplanes.
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Indonesia still wishes to buy eight Sukhoi Su-35 fighters from Russia and is negotiating with Moscow on the prices, Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu disclosed.
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Since September, Boeing engineers have been busy at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, swapping the old APG-70 radars on the F-15Es there and replacing them with the state-of-the-art APG-82 AESA radar.
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Bulgaria’s fighter competition to replace its MiG-29 has been expanded to include second-hand Eurofighters from Italy.
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Retired Lockheed Martin test pilot Jon Beesley was back in Fort Worth this month to celebrate the first flight of the F-35. Beesley flew the maiden flight of the F-35 on Dec. 15, 2006.