Germany has further shortlisted the Eurofighter and the F/A-18 as potential candidates to replace its Tornado fighter-bomber, sources told Reuters.
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KC-46A’s boom to be redesign
The U.S. Air Force will pay Boeing to redesign the boom on the KC-46A aerial refueling tanker.
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Buk M3 air defense missile system appears in Kursk
DOT&E says CVN 78 “will probably not achieve” sortie rate requirement
Bloomberg has managed to obtain an assessment of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) by the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. The Pentagon’s chief tester says new aircraft carrier “will probably not achieve” its sortie rate due to ongoing problems with its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) system.
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