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The Indian Air Force is set to acquire the last Boeing white-tail C-17 strategic transport aircraft after the defense acquisition committee cleared the procurement.
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According to Jane’s the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has narrowed down to four aircraft types that meets its Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) requirements.
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The Bulgarian government was forced to suspend a plan to overhaul the country’s MiG-29s with RSK MiG after Ukraine’s Ukrinmash filed an appeal with the country’s competition regulator.
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For several years, the U.S. Navy’s MH-60S community has been grappling with an issue with the gunner’s seat that has “directly contributed to medical groundings, degraded mission performance and a growing number of chronic back injuries among service members.”
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The U.S. Air Force has given Lockheed Martin a $961 million, five-year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the sustainment and upgrades for its fleet of 683 Sniper pods.
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