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The Russian Air Force has grounded all its MiG-31 fighters after one of them crashed in Krasnoyarsk Territory on Jan. 25. Both crew members ejected safely.
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The U.S. Marine Corps is planning to send the F-35B to this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom this year, Lt. Gen. Jon Davis said.
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The Indian Air Force has grown impatient with the Defense Ministry while waiting for the latter to decide whether to move ahead with the purchase of six Airbus MRTT tankers.
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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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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.
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