Indonesia is said to be refusing to take delivery of a AW101 helicopter that is already in the country.
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X-37B has landed, this time in Florida
While the world was fixated over the French election, the X-37B fired its thrusters to deorbit and land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on May 7.
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U.S. Air Force courtesy photo
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USAF’s first enlisted pilots since WW2
Three airmen completed undergraduate remotely piloted aircraft training on May 5 and made history by becoming the first group of enlisted men to serve as pilots in the U.S. Air Force since World War 2.
U.S. Air Force illustration/Tech. Sgt. Ave I. Young
MQ-9 has dropped its first JDAM
The MQ-9 recently dropped a GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition at a range, adding another weapon to the drone’s arsenal.
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U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christian Clausen
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F-22 Inc 3.2B Mod completes firing trials of AIM-9X, AIM-120D
Edwards Air Force Base posted a press release on May 4 saying that the F-22 Increment 3.2B Modernization have completed firing trials with the AIM-9X and AIM-120D air-to-air missiles.
By U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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