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Bell Boeing given contract for 39 CMV-22Bs

Posted on July 3, 2018July 3, 2018 by alert5

The Pentagon gave Bell Boeing a $4.2 billion contract to build V-22s and this contract includes 39 CMV-22Bs for the U.S. Navy.

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Tu-22M3M could carry up to four Kinzhals

Posted on July 3, 2018 by alert5

An anonymous source told Sputnik that the upgraded Tu-22M3M supersonic bomber could carry up to four Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (TU-22M3) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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USAF has slashed UTP to 49 weeks and some instructors are concern

Posted on July 2, 2018 by alert5

It now takes the U.S. Air Force an average of 49.2 weeks to train a pilot under the undergraduate pilot training syllabus. Previously, it was 54.7 weeks.

1st Lieutenant Austin Hornsby,435th Fighter Training Squadron student pilot, trains on a unit training device simulator Oct. 20, 2016, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, for the Introduction to Fighter Fundamental course.The squadron’s two-fold mission is to forge up to 150 fighter pilots and weapon systems officers annually – including international students – and to weld experienced fighter pilots and WSOs into instructors in Air Educationand Training Command’s Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals squadrons. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joel Martinez/Released)

B-2 completes B61-12 qualification flight tests

Posted on July 2, 2018 by alert5

A B-2 stealth bomber assigned to the 419th Test & Evaluation Squadron has completed two non-nuclear system qualification flight tests of the B61-12 gravity bomb at Tonopah Test Range on Jun. 9.

By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons