Aviation News
An anonymous U.S. source is telling Wendell Minnick at Defense News that China is losing a lot of (J-11B) in crashes. This has prompted Beijing to look to the Su-35.
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Rheinmetall has transferred the MANTIS air defence system to the German Air Force’s Air Defence Missile Squadron 1 “Schleswig-Holstein” in Husum, Germany.
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The Israeli Defense Ministry says the David’s Sling missile defense system has carried out the first successful interception.
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James Hardy, Asia-Pacific Editor of IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, looks at Taiwan’s F-16 upgrade program and it’s quest for 66 F-16C/Ds.
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Syrian rebels said on Sunday that they had captured a helicopter base east of Damascus. The director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said rebels seized control of the Marj al-Sultan base on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday morning.
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