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Head of the Royal Thai Air Force Air Chief Marshal Johm Rungswang told local reporters on Jan. 15 that two T50THs being delivered to Thailand will take another two more weeks to reach home.
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Nigeria has taken delivery of five more Super Mushshaks from Pakistan on Jan. 14. The aircraft were delivered to Kaduna air base using a Il-76.
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Ilyushin Bureau’s Chief Designer Nikolai Talikov said in an interview with TASS that his firm will complete testing of the new modernized Il-78M-90A aerial refueling tanker by end of this year or early next year.
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Airbus acknowledged on Jan. 13 that its subsidiary Matra Défense S.A.S. has been ordered to pay an arbitral award of $126 million to Taiwan for breach of contract in the supply of missiles to the island.
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A report by Thai PBS says the two T-50THs being delivered to Thailand this week have been grounded for checks after they went into turbulent weather during the ferry flight across South China Sea.
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