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The U.S. Air Force has implemented a new checklist for F-22 pilots who are flying with external fuel tanks attached.
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TASS reported on Apr. 23 that Moscow intends to replace the MiG-29s it deployed in Armenia with newer Su-30SM fighters.
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By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (Su-30SM) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Russian MiG-31 was lost on Apr. 26, 2017. At that time, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not explain why the aircraft crashed. It has now emerged that the twin-engine fighter was brought down by another MiG-31 which fired a R-33 air-to-air missile mistakenly.
By Konstantin Tyurpeko (http://russianplanes.net/id161326) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Russia has started the serial production of the AL-41F-1 turbofan engine, which is the powerplant for the Su-57.
By Vitaly Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/232) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons