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B-1B bombers from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas’ 7th Bomb Wing and Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota’s 28th Bomb Wing were ceremonially realigned to U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command’s Eighth Air Force on Sept. 28.
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The last flying Vulcan bomber, XH558, flew with the Red Arrows one last time at the Southport Air Show on Sept. 19. Here’s the view of the historic flight from the cockpit of the Vulcan.
Defence sources told Press Trust of India that negotiations for 36 Rafale fighter jets are likely to be wrapped up in another month.
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A BBC film crew was able to go aboard a Royal Air Force Sentinel R1 and see its surveillance mission over the Iraqi, Syria border. Hit the source for the link to the video.
Photo: Sergeant Ross Tilly (RAF)/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
Last week , two Swedish Air Force Gripen fighters from 211 Squadron, F 21, landed on a road runway in Finland for the first time during exercise Baana 2015.
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