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The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on Mar. 7 regarding a potential Foreign Military Sale to the United Arab Emirates of 300 AIM-9X Block II missiles.
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The Israeli Air Force has declared the Rafael SPICE 1000 precision-guided bomb has reached initial operational capability (IOC) on its F-16C/D fleet.
By Bin im Garten (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Three anonymous sources told Reuters that Tokyo has decided that its next fighter will be based on a Western design and the project will costs around $40 billion.
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China is working on developing its own version of the X-37B spaceplane but the Chinese version will take off from a conventional runway.
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Indonesia has decided to purchase two A400M transport aircraft from Airbus but these planes will not have any military role as they will be used to move goods around the eastern part of the country.
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By Laurent ERRERA from L’Union, France (DSC_8344-EC-402) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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