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India to lease aerial refueling tankers for training

Posted on April 11, 2021 by alert5

The Indian Air Force has taken a new approach for its bid to acquire a fleet of aerial refueling tankers. It has now decided that it will lease those new tankers by the hour.

Alec Wilson from Hampton-in-Arden, UK [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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B-1B getting new radar instrumentation system

Posted on April 11, 2021April 10, 2021 by alert5

Northrop Grumman is designing a new radar instrumentation system for the B-1B bomber under a $2.3 million contract.

Airmen attached to the 7th Bomb Wing of the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force, perform maintenance on the B-1 bomber’s radar system April 12, 2012, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation awarded a engineering services order to improve radar support for the aircraft Feb. 11, 2021 (Air Force Courtesy File Photo)

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#StrikeEagleSaturday

Posted on April 10, 2021 by alert5

An F-15E Strike Eagle departs after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, March 17, 2021. The KC-135 delivers U.S. Air Forces Central a vital global reach aerial refueling capability to support joint and coalition aircraft throughout the U.S. CENTCOM AOR. The F-15E Strike Eagle is a dual-role fighter designed to perform air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor Harrison)

USAF launching a satellite in 2024 to test space-based solar power beaming system

Posted on April 9, 2021April 10, 2021 by alert5

Preliminary test results from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) experiment to turn solar energy into microwaves for beaming back to Earth is out, Space.com reports.

Image by Melissa Grim, Partise
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Taiwan’s PAC-3 unit can deployed in 25 minutes

Posted on April 9, 2021 by alert5

Taiwan recently held a combat readiness exercise and the Ministry of National Defense’s Military News Agency has produce a video of the exercise. In the video, an officer in charge of a PAC-3 battery describe how his unit can be deployed for combat in 25 minutes and the battery is operational in 70 minutes.

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