Elizabeth and Jacob Marceaux are a husband-and-wife team who have flown Apaches in combat in Afghanistan.
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Category: Army
Malaysian Army A109 crashed
A Malaysian Army A109 helicopter crashed on the night of Jan. 30 in the southern state on Johor.
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Saab to install Wide Area Multilateration System at Joint Base Lewis – McChord
Joint Base Lewis-McChord is enhancing the surveillance of low flying aircraft in its training area by having Saab installed its Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system.
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AgustaWestland gets two helicopter contracts from U.K.
Britain has given AgustaWestland two contracts worth £760 million to convert 25 Air Force AW101 Merlin helicopters for naval use and a five-year maintenance contract for the Apache AH Mk.1.
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Commander of Italian Army Aviation killed in helicopter crash
Maj. Gen. Giangiacomo Calligaris, head of the Italian Army Aviation, was killed in a AB206 crash on Jan. 23.
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