Aviation News
China dispatched a single Y-9JB electronic warfare aircraft into Korea Strait on Feb. 27 and Yonhap reported that more than 10 fighters were scrambled by South Korea to monitor the four-hours flight by the Chinese.
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Russia officially donated two An-26 transport aircraft to Nicaragua on Feb. 23. The Russian Navy commander for naval aviation, Maj. Gen. Igor Kozhin handed over the aircraft to Commander in Chief of the Army of Nicaragua, Gen. Julio César Avilés Castillo, at the ceremony.
India’s Rustom-2 medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle has been flown in the user configuration along with a higher power engine.
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A Russian researcher disclosed on Zvezda television that the country is working on a supersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
Jane’s reported that Indonesia has acquired four Wing Loong I armed unmanned aerial vehicles and these will be based in West Kalimantan.
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