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Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy F-35B fleet will be armed with an updated version of the MBDA ASRAAM heat-seeking air-to-air missile, the British Ministry of Defense announced on Aug. 16.
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This week, the Royal Air Force Eurofighter detachment in the Baltic States will be making low-level training flights at 500ft in Estonia, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.
Photo: SAC Ben Stevenson/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Operation Yahalom, a bold plan by Israel to have a Iraqi MiG-21 pilot defect to Israel along with his aircraft.
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Photo: Israeli Air Force
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Russia announced that its Tu-22M3 bombers based in Iran’s Hamadan air base have carried out air strikes in Syria.
Source: Social Media
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The Royal Air Force has dispatched a CH-47 to help recover the wreckage of a Griffin helicopter that caught fire after an emergency landing on Yr Aran mountain in Scotland Wales on Aug. 9.
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Photo: Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team
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