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Saab is offering its Sea Giraffe 1X 3D, active electronically scanned array (AESA) naval radar to the U.S. market. The company is showcasing the radar at the Maritime Security East Conference in Norfolk, Virginia this week.
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The Pentagon’s Defense Contract Management Agency told Bloomberg that it “has low confidence in Boeing’s ability” to deliver the KC-46A tanker to the U.S. Air Force on time in August 2017.
Photo: Gail Hanusa, Boeing
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The Italian Air Force has placed an order for nine T-346As for over 300 million Euros. This brings the total number ordered to 18 aircraft.
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By Gian Marco Anzellotti from Roma, Italia [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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AVIC announced that the chief designer of the Chengdu J-10 fighter has passed away on Mar. 22, four days shy of his next birthday. Just one day before the anniversary of J-10’s maiden flight. He was 86.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by researchers from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has proven that it can remain submerge in saltwater for two months and then launched into the air to carry out its mission.
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Credit: Johns Hopkins APL
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