Aviation News
Aviation Week analyses Japan’s fighter development program and concluded that the next fighter from the land of the rising sun will place emphasis on range and payload, sacrificing speed.
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A Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A has been delivered to Beriyev Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex (TANTK) where it will be converted into the first A-100 AWACS.
One of NASA’s three WB-57 has been photographed operating in Djibouti, Africa. The aging plane might be there to help generate high-resolution 3D maps.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase III contract for a Home-on-Jam demonstration on the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and Small Diameter Bomb Increment I (SDB-I) to Scientific Applications & Research Associates, Inc.
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DARPA has invited the industry to submit their ideas on how to enable existing large aircraft to carry, launch and recover multiple unmanned air systems.
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