Aviation News
NAVAIR has given Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems a contract to study how to integrate deployable chaff system into the GQM-163A, Jane’s reported.
U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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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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U.S. Air Force/Yasuo Osakabe [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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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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Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Between October 2005 and January 2016, the Ugandan Ministry of Defense paid approximately $545,000 to a Russian instructor pilot.
Melting Tarmac Images [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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A diagram from a research paper written by the China Airborne Missile Academy suggests using separate aperture compound seeker for the country’s next generation long-range air-to-air missile.
Continue reading “China’s next long-range air-to-air missile may have a periscopic IR seeker”