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Russian MiGs getting new HMD with indigenous parts

Posted on June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 by alert5

Russia is phasing out its Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) which has Ukrainian parts and replace them with ones made by Electroautomatics Experimental Design Bureau.

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Analysis of Russia’s Peresvet mobile laser system

Posted on June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by alert5

Bart Hendrickx at The Space Review has published a comprehensive review of Russia’s Peresvet mobile laser system.

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Contract to build F-15QA complex at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar awarded

Posted on June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by alert5

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $524 million contract to a joint venture between Bahadir Construction Engineering Contracting and Trading Company & Impresa Costruzioni Giuseppe Maltauro to begin constructing an operational fighter wing for the F-15QA beddown at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in 2022.

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All F-16 Block 70s will have AN/ALQ-256A(V); Taiwan is first customer

Posted on June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 by alert5

Lockheed Martin has decided that all future F-16 Block 70 fighters will be protected by the new AN/ALQ-256A(V) self-protection system made by L3Harris.