Aviation News
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 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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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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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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The Indian Ministry of Defence has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to acquire 245 FIM-92 air-to-air missiles. These will be mounted on the AH-64s that India has ordered.
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