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The Defense Security Cooperative Agency has notified Congress on a potential FMS to Iraq for F-16 weapons, munitions, equipment, and logistics support.
Photo: Lockheed Martin
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Armenia’s Deputy Defense Minister Alik Mirzabekyan and the Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, Konstantin Biryulin, chaired the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation this week and both sides discussed on Armenia’s request to buy three refurbished Il-76s and Su-30SM fighters.
By Konstantin Tyurpeko (http://russianplanes.net/id158633) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The Israeli Air Force was given the go ahead for a major upgrade of the Boeing F-15I, Flight Global reports.
By TSGT KEVIN J. GRUENWALD, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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In an interview with CCTV, a PLAAF Su-30MKK fighter pilot from the 3rd Fighter Division, 9th Air Regiment, claims that he had a close encounter with a foreign fighter two years ago. Both sides were going head-to-head and neither one was willing to break away.