Aviation News
In an interview with CNN Turk, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik said the country is in the final stages of a developing a new Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) system that will be able to intercept incoming rockets fired by ISIL from Syria.
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The Airbus C295W medium transport operated as an aerial refueling tanker on Sept. 29 for the first time. The tanker was equipped with a palletized air-to-air refueling unit and a Spanish Air Force C295 made several contacts with the drogue.
Airbus is running into trouble selling 50 H225Ms to Poland after the latter’s Development Ministry broke off from talks on an offset deal that forms part of the contract for the purchase.
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By Laurent ERRERA from L’Union, France [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Israeli firm RADA announced that its RPS-42 based mobile air surveillance system has been delivered to a military customer from Asia.
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Photo: RADA
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Berlin had decided to buy between four to six C-130Js and operate them as a pool together with aircraft being purchase by France, the Wall Street Journal said.
By Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smith (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1152725) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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