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Taiwan scrambled RF-5E to monitor French Mistral-class Dixmude

Posted on May 29, 2015May 29, 2015 by alert5

Taiwan was caught off-guard when French Mistral-class helicopter carrier Dixmude was underway off its eastern coast earlier this month.

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MiG-31 shot down cruise missile

Posted on May 29, 2015May 29, 2015 by alert5

A Russian Air Force MiG-31 successfully shot down a cruise missile fired from a Tu-95MS in Russia’s northwestern region.

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Readout from crashed A400M’s black boxes point to assembly QA issue

Posted on May 29, 2015May 29, 2015 by alert5

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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Russia to buy at least 50 new Tu-160s

Posted on May 29, 2015May 29, 2015 by alert5

“No less than 50 (Tu-160) aircraft over time will be purchased in order to cover the costs that will go into production,” Russian Air Force Commander Col.Gen. Viktor Bondarev said.

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