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India to order another 36 Rafales
Media reports from India suggests that the Modi government intends to buy 36 more Rafale fighters next year.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (Rafale – RIAT 2009) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Estonian Special Forces train on CV-22
From Sept. 3-9, a USAF CV-22 was based in Estonia to train with the local special forces community.
U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey, assigned to 352d Special Operations Wing, during Fast Rope Insertion and Extraction System training near Amari, Estonia, Sep. 3, 2019. During the week-long training, U.S. and Estonian special operation forces partnered on FRIES familiarization, casualty evacuation and rapidly loading and off-loading a tactical vehicle onto the aircraft. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
Israeli delegation in U.S. to evaluate CH-53K
A five-man team from the Israeli Air Force is in the United States to evaluate the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter.
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NGC to supply new and upgraded LITENING targeting pods to USAF
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $141 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) task order for new LITENING advanced targeting pods and upgrades that will bring existing pods up to the current configuration.
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