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A South Korean KF-16D crashed on Mar. 30 during an exercise and it has now been determined that a defective component on the engine was the cause.
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Boeing has plan to test its new Chinook rotor blades this October. If successful, the heavy-lift helicopter will gain an extra 2,000lb for its maximum take-off weight.
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Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s new Osprey X-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been selected by the U.S. Navy for mounting on its MQ-8C VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Indonesia’s Ambassador in Moscow, Mohamad Wahid Supriyadi, told RIA Novosti on Jun. 8 that his country is still in talks to buy eight Su-35 fighters.
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The folks over at the International Institute for Strategic Studies have written a piece on Vietnam’s indigenous KCT 15 anti-ship missile program that can trace its lineage to the Russian Zvezda-Strela 3M24 Uran.
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