Another milestone for the Boeing KC-46 project as EMD-2 successfully carried out a mid-air refueling for the first time on Jan. 24.
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Photo: Paul Weatherman/Boeing
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Minuteman accident was not reported to Pentagon review team
Back in 2014, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel commissioned a review of the entire U.S. nuclear force by a group of nuclear weapons experts. The review started in March and it was during that period when an accident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base resulted in $1.8 million in damage to a Minuteman missile. Air Force Global Strike Command now said the review team was not told of the accident.
By Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Refueling Rafale Ms over Iraq
French Navy Rafale Ms took fuel from a KC-135 assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron over Iraq on Jan. 8.
U.S. Air Force photos by Tech. Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb
Hollande: “We are going to take another step on the road” to sell Rafale to India
French President François Hollande had to concede that selling 36 Rafale fighters to India won’t happen during his trip to the country this week.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (Rafale – RIAT 2013) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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AIDC’s first license-built aircraft are still flying in the United States
The Chinese American Pilots and Aircraft Owners Association (CAPAOA) has the only Aero Industry Development Center (AIDC) PL-1B still flying in the world.
By 玄史生 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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