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#FighterFriday Colombian Kfirs train with USAF A-10, F-16

Posted on July 19, 2018 by alert5

Colombian Air Force Kfir fighter jets fly over Arizona July 11, 2018. Six Colombian Air Force’s Kfir fighter jets will train at Davis-Monthan AFB for a week and a half in preparation for Red Flag 18-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Angela Ruiz)

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BAE Systems, Raytheon selected for UAE F-16 upgrade program

Posted on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018 by alert5

BAE Systems will supply new flight control computers to Lockheed Martin for the upgrade of UAE’s F-16 fleet. In a separate news, Raytheon will design, develop and manufacture the projector for BAE Systems’ Digital Light Engine (DLE) Head-Up Display (HUD) that will go into UAE’s F-16s.

By U. S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Naha Airport temporarily closed due to E-2C accident

Posted on July 18, 2018 by alert5

Naha Airport in Okinawa was temporarily closed after a Japan Air Self-Defense Force E-2C early warning aircraft landed and had two flat tires.

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Luftwaffe dispatching Eurofighters to Czechia for Exercise Ample Strike

Posted on July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 by alert5

Germany will send its Eurofighters to Czech Republic in September for Exercise Ample Strike from Sept. 3-14.

By Gerard van der Schaaf (Breakin’Eufi’s) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons
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Romanian IAR 99 crashes

Posted on July 17, 2018 by alert5

Romania lost another jet aircraft on Jul. 16 when a IAR 99 crashed in Bacău county, in eastern Romania.

By Cătălin Cocîrlă [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

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