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The Italian parliament has voted to stop the supply of F-16 spare parts to Egypt over the death of an Italian post-graduate student in Cairo this year.
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Photo: U.S. Embassy in Cairo
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MBDA Italia has secured a contract worth more than 1 billion euros to supply Aster 30 Block 1 and VL MICA air defense missiles for new warships ordered by the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces (QENF) from Fincantieri.
Photo: MBDA
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Guy Oren, director of Rafael’s electro-optical systems unit, told Flightglobal that his company will be supplying 164 of its popular Litening targeting pods to the Indian Air Force.
By Hunini (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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An Artificial Intelligence software, dubbed ALPHA, challenged retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Col. Gene Lee in several dogfights and the machine emerged as the winner each time.
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An F-21 KFIR taxis on the flight line aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort June 27. The aircraft is visiting Fightertown to participate in training operations with tenant squadrons. The KFIR is with the Airborne Tactical Advantage Company. According to the ATAC website, the company has trained Navy, Marine, Air Force and Army air-crews, ship-crews, and combat controllers in the air-to-ship, air-to-air, and air-to-ground arenas.
Photo by Staff Sgt. Dengrier Baez