Aviation News
Capt. Mark Johnson, Naval Air Systems Command PMA-280 program manager, told USNI News that the U.S. Navy is close to signing a deal to turn a number of Tomahawks into anti-ship cruise missiles.
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Tempus Applied Solutions (TAS) announced on Aug. 14 that it has acquired six ex-Royal Air Force Lockheed Tristars and three of them will be used for air-to-air refueling (AAR) operations.
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Airbus Helicopters has issued a safety bulletin on Aug. 11 declaring all variants of the Tiger attack helicopter as unsafe. The bulletin came after a German Tiger crashed in Mali.
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Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha says the country has yet to decide whether to buy the five RGM-84L Harpoon Block II missiles from the United States.
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Kratos CEO Eric DeMarco disclosed that the company’s secret jet-powered, high-subsonic unmanned air vehicle (UAV) will enter production by end of this business quarter.
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