Aviation News
South Korea’s Defense Project Promotion Committee has approved a plan to replace the country’s CH-47D helicopters with new ones.
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A Singapore Armed Forces personnel was involved in a parachute incident in Pintung, Taiwan on Dec. 13. The person had landed on a road with one of his leg tangled with the parachute line.
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Australia has decided that it will no longer operate the MRH90 helicopter till 2037 and has started talks with the United States to buy 40 Black Hawks to replace the troubled helicopter in Army service.
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A combined Hellfire missile shot was carried out by Apaches from the Japan Ground Self Defense Force, and 1-229th Attack Battalion, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade at Yakima Training Center on Dec. 6.
Four AH-64Ds assigned to the 1st Battle Helicopter Unit, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force, are in Yakima Training Center, Washington for a combined arms training exercise with units from the 7th Infantry Division as part of Exercise Rising Thunder 21.