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Lt. Gen. James M. “Mike” Holmes, who has been nominated to be the next chief of Air Combat Command (ACC), told Defense News that he has pitched the idea of buying a new light attack aircraft to his bosses.
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U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. David Kujawa
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Anonymous defense officials told The Sunday Express that New Delhi is willing to buy a small number of Dassault Rafale fighters is because the aircraft has been identified as the platform to take over the nuclear strike role from the IAF’s Mirage 2000 fighters.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (Rafale – RIAT 2013) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Engineers from India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will be busy on Sept. 20 as five live-firings of the land-based Barak 8 air defense missile have been scheduled.
Photo: Indian Ministry of Defense
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The British Ministry of Defense has placed a $3.25 million order for the Leonardo-Finmeccanica BriteCloud decoy system.
By Selex ES [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A official with Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation told RIA Novosti at the sidelines of Africa Aerospace and Defense 2016 that two Mi-35 helicopters will be delivered to Nigeria by end of this year.
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By Ministério da Defesa [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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