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Responding to the Pentagon’s comments that a Russian Su-27 had intercepted a RC-135U in a dangerous manner, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said the spy plane was flying with its transponder switched off.
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India’s defense minister said the first of the 36 Rafales may not reach the country until two-and-a-half years later.
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Maj. Gen. James Post was removed as vice commander at Air Combat Command after making comments that anyone who talked to Congress about retiring the A-10 was committing treason.
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A Brazilian prosecutor has been assigned to investigate the country’s purchase of 36 Gripen NG fighters.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that the Pentagon has to make a decision on building the first production models of the KC-46A just three months after the tanker has flown.
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