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Twin-seat JF-17B project launched

Posted on April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 by alert5

A ceremony to launch the twin-seat JF-17B project was held in Chengdu, China recently with dignitaries from China and Pakistan gracing the occasion.

Pakistan Air Force Chengdu JF-17 Gu
By Shimin Gu [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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Posted in Air Force, Industry

X-2 expected to clock around 50 flights during test campaign

Posted on April 27, 2016April 27, 2016 by alert5

Flight Global interviewed Hirofumi Doi, manager of Japan’s Future Fighter Program at the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), and Doi said the X-2 demonstrator will fly around 50 flights.

X-2 air
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Posted in Industry, Research

Britain’s Protector UAV is actually the Certifiable Predator B

Posted on April 27, 2016April 27, 2016 by alert5

The Protector unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that the British Ministry of Defense is buying has been revealed to be the Certifiable Predator B (CPB) from GA-ASI.

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Image: GA-ASI
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Israel developed the first app for the F-35

Posted on April 27, 2016 by alert5

Aviation Week looks at the implications of having operators write their own software applications that will run inside the mission computers of the F-35. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is the first company to do so for the Israeli Air Force.

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Photo: U.S. Air Force

Posted in Air Force, Industry

Russia supplying S-300 to Iran ahead of schedule

Posted on April 27, 2016 by alert5

An executive with the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation told reporters that delivery of the S-300 air defense systems to Iran is ahead of schedule and Moscow plans to export other weapons that are not banned under international law to Tehran.

9A83ME TEL - Antey-2500 SAM 02
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/384) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Posted in Air Defense, Industry

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