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Japan and the Philippines are applying their Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) for the first time to joint military operations, implementing the defense pact through both a training exercise and an active humanitarian mission.
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The U.S. government shutdown has forced the withdrawal of all American military demonstration teams from Pacific Airshow Huntington Beach, organizers announced this week, leaving the annual event without its marquee U.S. military performers as the show opens today.
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The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has made aviation history by becoming the first customer to order Airbus’s next-generation A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport Plus (MRTT+). The order, announced Sept. 25, marks a important milestone for Airbus as it transitions its tanker program from the legacy A330-200 to the more advanced A330neo variant.
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The LIG NEX1-Korean Air consortium has emerged as the highest-scoring bidder in South Korea’s 1.78 trillion won ($1.29 billion) electronic warfare aircraft program, outperforming the competing Korea Aerospace Industries-Hanwha Systems team in technical evaluations, according to defense industry sources.
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The U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated artificial intelligence-based autonomy on the BQM-177A aerial target in August at Point Mugu Sea Range, California, marking the first beyond-visual-range autonomy mission on a fast-moving platform. The test involved two aircraft operated by Shield AI’s Hivemind software under the Naval Air Systems Command’s Experimental Platform for Intelligent Combat project.
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