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Canada will have to upgrade ejection seats and external lighting of Australian Hornets

Posted on February 5, 2018 by alert5

Edmonton Journal reports that Canada plans to upgrade the ejection seats and external lighting of the Australian Hornets when they are bought over.

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Luftwaffe’s next heavy-lift helicopter needs to have inflight refueling capability

Posted on February 4, 2018February 1, 2018 by alert5

A senior German Air Force officer told Flight Global at Defence IQ International Military Helicopter conference in London on Jan. 31 that the next heavy-lift helicopter for the Luftwaffe needs to be inflight refueling capable.

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F-35 will be getting Auto GCAS by next year

Posted on February 3, 2018February 1, 2018 by alert5

The Pentagon has brought forward a plan to install the automatic ground collision avoidance software on the F-35.

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PLAAF GX-4 command post said to have crashed

Posted on February 2, 2018 by alert5

An aircraft from the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) crashed in Guizhou on Jan. 29 and it is said that the plane was a GX-4 C3I command post and battlefield surveillance aircraft.

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