Aviation News
A press release from Lockheed Martin says Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has “activated contractual agreements under the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP) to produce the T70 utility helicopter.”
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Three Myanmar airmen were killed when their Mi-2 helicopter went down in a valley near the Yangon-Mandalay highway on Jun. 14.
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Photo: Myanmar Highway Police
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The UAE military lost two of its helicopters on Jun. 12 and 13. The first crash occurred while flying over international waters, the General Command of the Armed Forces said in a statement.
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The Latvian parliament has amended the country’s aviation laws so that soldiers at Army bases can now shoot down any suspicious drone flying overhead.
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The U.S. government has given Boeing a $667 million contract to supply 24 AH-64E attack helicopters to Qatar. Approval of the sale came through in 2014.
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