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One of the Indian Air Force’s VVIP transport, a Boeing 777-300ER, was stuck on the runway at HAL airport in Bangalore on Aug. 6 after a pilot on training had made a wrong turn at the turning pad.
Ketan Lanke, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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For the first time, an F-15C has shot down a QF-16 aerial target using an AIM-120 air-to-air missile that was cued by the Legion Pod Infrared Search-and-Track system.
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Israeli Air Force engineers can now repair damaged runways with Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) mats and anchoring systems thanks to training by U.S. Air Force and Army engineers.
Photos via USAF
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A research paper by a team from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology describes how a tanker-centric stereo vision system can be used for automated aerial refueling (AAR).
Photo: U.S. Air Force
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