BAE Systems put up a press release on May 28 saying that it had secured a £1.7 million contract to develop a common weapon launcher for the Eurofighter, but the link has since been removed.
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Category: Air Force
Su-35S with three KAB-1500L LGBs
An early Su-35S production aircraft with three inert KAB-1500L laser-guided bombs at Zhukovsky earlier this month.
Taiwan scrambled RF-5E to monitor French Mistral-class Dixmude
Taiwan was caught off-guard when French Mistral-class helicopter carrier Dixmude was underway off its eastern coast earlier this month.
By Simon Ghesquiere/Marine Nationale (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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MiG-31 shot down cruise missile
A Russian Air Force MiG-31 successfully shot down a cruise missile fired from a Tu-95MS in Russia’s northwestern region.
By Dmitriy Pichugin (http://russianplanes.net/id49677) [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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Readout from crashed A400M’s black boxes point to assembly QA issue
Airbus group’s chief of strategy Marwan Lahoud told the German daily Handelsblatt that readout from the black boxes of the A400M that crashed suggest issues with quality control during the assembly process.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (A400M – RIAT 2010Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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