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Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, said in a memo to Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, that a draft response to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain had contained misleading information.
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Canada is reported to have selected the Airbus C-295 as its next long-range search-and-rescue aircraft and an announcement will be made today at Trenton, Ontario.
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Russian Helicopters has started the dismantling of Mi-35s belonging to the Indonesian Army and bring them to its Aircraft Repair Plant Number 150 in Svetly, Kaliningrad Region for overhaul.
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Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Brooks Fletcher
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The U.S. Navy is facing a potential shortfall of around 70 carrier-borne fighters in the upcoming years and officials are looking at buying “several squadrons worth of Super Hornets,” Reuters reports.
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Chief of the Indian Navy, Adm. Sunil Lanba, has ruled out the deployment of the HAL Naval LCA on his aircraft carriers.
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