Aviation News
The British government announced on Feb. 13 that the Army’s Wildcat and Apache helicopters will be deployed to Estonia this year.
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NAVAIR has given Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems a contract to study how to integrate deployable chaff system into the GQM-163A, Jane’s reported.
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The U.S. military has filed a police report complaining that someone pointed a laser at a C-130 flying near Yokota Air Base on Feb. 11.
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Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan has confirmed that the country will be buying four Su-30SM fighters from Russia and will be buying additional aircraft in future.
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Between October 2005 and January 2016, the Ugandan Ministry of Defense paid approximately $545,000 to a Russian instructor pilot.
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