Aviation News
Australia’s Tiger attack helicopters have deployed to Papua New Guinea for an exercise with the local military’s Air Transport Wing at Jackson’s Airport, Port Moresby from Aug. 16 to Sept. 7.
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A Pentagon spokesman told reporters that the U.S. military plans to have 90 orbits by unmanned aircraft each day in four years’ time.
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Three refurbished CH-47Ds for Morocco’s army have been shipped home to Tangier. Click on the source for pictures of the helicopters at the port.
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The United States will withdraw its Patriot missile battery deployed in Turkey this October for “critical modernization upgrades,” a joint Turkish-U.S. statement said.
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Seven people were injured when a U.S. Army Black Hawk crashed off Okinawa on Aug. 12, amongst those injured where two members of a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force team specializing in counter-terrorism operations.