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Flight Lieutenant James Pears became the first Australian pilot to fly the P-8A Poseidon on Apr. 14 at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida.
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The Swiss Air Force discovered that sixteen of its F-5 fighters have cracks in their fuselage. Ten of them will have to be retired from service.
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Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic said his government will buy the Mi-17 or Mi-171 helicopter from Russia.
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Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma; Seymour-Johnson AFB, North Carolina; Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts; and Grissom ARB, Indiana are candidate bases for the first U.S. Air Force Reserve-led KC-46A location.
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An anonymous Iraqi official told Reuters that the county is expecting its F-16IQs to return home sometime between July and August.
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