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The U.S. Army wants a new advanced 3,000 shaft horsepower turbine engine to its fleet of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters. For that, it selected the Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney, to accomplish the task.
By: Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A interim flying test bed for the A-100 AEW&C platform will make its first flight next year and is being dubbed A-100LL. The actual A-100 will not fly until 2018.
By: Alexey Reznichenko (http://russianplanes.net/id174408) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
South Korea has decided that it will arm the first batch of Incheon-class frigates with the supersonic Haeseong II ship-to-surface cruise missile.
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The Nikkei reported that Japan is rolling out a series of upgrades to its F-15J fleet and one key requirement is to have the fighter double its missile load to 16 air-to-air missiles.
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Graphic: Boeing
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From the official trailer of Amy Adams’s movie Arrival.
