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This RSAF AH-64D has landed on the spot where Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher all have raced their F1 cars during the Singapore Grand Prix. The attack helicopter is there to support the Singapore Army, which is having its open house at the heart of the city this weekend. Joining the Apache is a RSAF Super Puma helicopter, and these two are perhaps the first military helicopters ever on a F1 race track.
The 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons with the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, are training in Mojave, California with the U.S. Marines to prepare for an upcoming deployment to southern Afghanistan.
Russia’s Voronezh-M long-range missile warning radar was put on duty officially at 10:15 a.m. local time in the Irkutsk region of Siberia on Wednesday.
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A Russian An-30 skidded off the runway at Czech air force base in Caslav after the front landing gear broke during landing.
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The Royal Saudi Air Force has confirmed that it will place an order for 22 BAE Systems Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers (AJT), 55 PC-21 advanced turboprop trainers, 25 primary training aircraft.
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