Turkey said it shot down a Syrian helicopter on May 16 with two AIM-9 missiles, however Syria said it was just an unmanned aerial vehicle.


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Turkey said it shot down a Syrian helicopter on May 16 with two AIM-9 missiles, however Syria said it was just an unmanned aerial vehicle.


The Moroccan armed forces announced that missing F-16 pilot Lt. Yassine Bahti was killed in Yemen.

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Five students and three instructors from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School traveled to Textron Aviation’s Wichita, Kansas facilities to evaluate the Scorpion jet and AT-6 light attack aircraft.
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Spain’s military air crash investigation agency, CITAAM, will take over the investigation into the crash of a A400M after a civilian team discharge itself from the probe.
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has decided that the JASSM-ER missile is the platform to fit the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) payload.
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