For the fifth straight year, Japan’s cabinet approved a fatter defense budget and it is a record $44 billion.
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Maiden flight of first production conforming Scorpion jet
The first production conforming Scorpion jet has completed its first flight McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Textron AirLand has announce.
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Pakistan getting 4 Mi-35Ms next year
Pakistan’s Minister for defense production, Rana Tanveer Hussain, disclosed that four Mi-35M attack helicopters will be delivered to the Pakistan Army next year.
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Folding wing on JL-9? Carrier-base variant?
Update: It’s a regular JL-9.
Guizhou Aviation Industry Import/Export Company (GAIEC) has published a series of images of the JL-9 on the production floor and the wings clearly show the folding mechanism.
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Boeing promise Trump that new Air Force One will cost less than $4 billion
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met incoming U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 21 and the aerospace company has promise him that the cost of replacing Air Force One with the 747-8 will not exceed $4 billion.
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