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KAI confirms contract to convert four Baekdu-clase ISR aircraft

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South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration will soon sign a contract with Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI) to convert four Dassault Falcon 2000LXS business jets into Baekdu-class intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms.

Dassault Falcon 2000LX 2021 SO
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South Korea, U.S. secretly held aerial exercise this week

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An annual air exercise between South Korea and the United States kicked off secretly on Nov. 1. The exercise is to be held over five days.

Republic of Korea Air Force KF-16 and F-15Ks are refueled by a ROKAF KC-330 tanker while participating in the first combined air refueling operation with U.S. Airmen in a KC-10 Extender from Travis Air Force Base, California, Nov. 19, 2019, in Mallipo Air Refueling airspace near Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. The joint air refueling mission was for ROKAF members to gain insight on how to develop and employ their recently acquired KC-330 tanker aircraft. (Courtesy photo)

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A-10 damaged by misfired cannon is back flying again after 3 years

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A-10C, #80-0264, is back flying again after spending three years at Hill Air Force Base for restoration by the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Group.

A-10 Thunderbolt II, tail number 80-0264, is towed to the flight line at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Oct. 22, 2021. The A-10 spent more than three years at Hill being restored by the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Group after a sustaining damage from a gun misfire over Michigan’s Grayling Air Gunnery Range that forced the pilot to land without landing gear. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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