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The U.S. Air Force announced that the KC-46 flying with a modified boom has managed to refuel a C-17 in mid-air and the previously observe axial loading issues were not present this time.
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Photo: Paul Weatherman/Boeing
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The British Ministry of Defense is procuring a red air and electronic warfare (EW) training service under the Air Support to Defense Operational Training (ASDOT) program and Qinetiq and Thales have decided to join hands and offer the Textron Airland’s Scorpion light attack aircraft as the platform.
By Tim Felce [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Raytheon’s vice president for Integrated Air and Missile Defense declared at the Farnborough Air Show that the company’s Patriot air defense system had a 100 percent success rate intercepting ballistic missiles fired from Yemen.
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Kratos has beaten seven other competitors to win a $40.8 million single award, cost-share contract by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to demonstrate a high-speed, long-range, low-cost, limited life-strike Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).
Image: Kratos
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German lawmakers have been informed that talks with the manufacturers of Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is likely to drag till next year.
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