Aviation News
A small number of F-16s from the Polish Air Force are in Israel for joint training with the Israeli Air Force in the Negev. This is the first joint exercise between both countries’ air forces.
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Fox News reported that the strange incident of stolen pickup truck that crashed at Camp Bastion as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s C-17 was landing was an attack by an Afghan interpreter.
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Seventeen U.S. senators have wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urging him to cancel a contract to buy 21 Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan Air Force.
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For the first time, the RSAF has deployed its F-15SGs to Thailand for Cope Tiger 12 at Korat.
U.S. Air Force photo/Capt David Herndon
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EADS has offered to sell a sixth A330 MRTT to the Royal Australian Air Force at heavily marked down price in order to get a shot at replacing the Caribou with C295.
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