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Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense organized a talk on Jul. 15 on building an indigenous jet trainer and experts at the forum urged for quick action as the core team of engineers who build the IDF fighter are retiring.
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Boeing and MBDA have concluded the live-firing trials of the Brimstone missile on the AH-64E attack helicopter. The testing was funded with money from the British Ministry of Defense.
Photo: Boeing
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A British Eurofighter has carried out flight trials of the E-Scan radar from BAE Systems’ site in Warton, Lancashire on Jul. 8.
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Photo: Eurofighter Consortium
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KAI has selected the Scorpion helmet-mounted sight and display (HMSD) from Thales for the Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase of the South Korean Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) program.
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Photo: Airbus Helicopters
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An annual report from Chernyshev Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise revealed that the manufacturer of the RD-33MK jet engine received an order for 92 of those engines in November 2015. It is speculated that the engines are meant for Egypt’s order of 46 MiG-35s.
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