Aviation News
Northrop Grumman’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) has completed 3,000 missions flying aboard the E-11A Bombardier Global Express BD-700 aircraft in support of overseas contingency missions.
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There are worries by certain members of the Swedish ruling coalition parties that the Gripen E/F development could take away a large part of the defense budget.
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Airbus said on Friday that it was delaying the first delivery of its A400M by at least three months.
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Raytheon has been awarded a sole source U.S. Navy contract to extend the range of the AIM-9X and address existing obsolescence issues.
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A picture circulating among the Chinese internet purporting to be the first Shenyang J-16 prototype could be real. Besides having the serial 1601, the aircraft spots an inflight-refueling probe, twin wheel nose landing gear, remove of the backup pitot tube on the side of the canopy as well as the large antenna behind the cockpit.
