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One of the companies behind Europrop, Safran, says fixing the two issues affecting the TP400 could take several weeks or several months.
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Antonov’s joint project with King Abdulaziz City Science and Technology, the AN-132D, has completed its major assembly. The aircraft is now waiting for its PW150A engines from Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs told lawmakers that the Obama administration would block the sale of Su-30 fighters by Russia to Iran at the U.N. Security Council.
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The U.S. Army’s Multi-Mission Launcher (MML) is in the spotlight again, this time it has successfully fired Lockheed Martin’s Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on Apr. 4.
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In the Pentagon’s contracts notification CR-062-16, published on Apr. 4, Bell is said to have been give a $170 million contract to produce nine AH-1Z attack helicopters for Pakistan.
By: Lance Cpl. Christopher O’Quin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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