Aviation News
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has denied media reports that multiple rocket launchers and surface-to-air missile systems were sold to Armenia in 2011.
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The Free Syrian Army (FSA) say they shot a MiG-23 and the pilot was captured. Syria blamed the crash on a technical malfunction.
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Three Ugandan Mi-24 helicopter gunships and one Mi-17 on their way to Somalia encountered trouble in Kenya on Sunday.
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Lockheed Martin and Boeing have settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a F-22 pilot killed in a crash in November 2010.
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Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has refuted media reports that it will lower the number of F-16C/Ds to be ordered from 66 to 24 aircraft.
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