At the FIDAE airshow in Chile, an executive from Embraer brief Reuters on the latest development in the KC-390 flight test program.
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DoD, DEA spent $86 million on drug surveillance airplane that never flew
Somewhere in Delaware, a ATR 42-500 is siting in a hangar collecting dust after $86 million was spent trying to convert the airliner into a surveillance plane for counter-narcotics mission in Afghanistan.
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Photo: U.S. Department of Justice
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Mitsubishi to tap its know-how from air-to-air missiles for use in autonomous driving cars
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. says it is ready to adapt radars and sensors developed for the military to help autonomous driving cars navigate around obstacles.
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RAF has tested BriteCloud from a Tornado
In the United States last October, the Royal Air Force successfully carried trials of the BriteCloud decoy from a Tornado GR4 fighter bomber.
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Russia hopes to sell Yak-130 in Latin America
An official from Russia’s Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation said he hopes air forces in Latin American will consider the Yak-130 when renewing their fleet.
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