The Russian Ministry of Defense has disclosed that Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has reached an agreement with Myanmar for six Su-30SME fighters.
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Taiwan to stand up second AH-64E unit middle of this year
Taiwan is expected to stand up a second AH-64E unit within the Army’s 601st Brigade in Taoyuan district, United Daily News reports.
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French Navy to retire Alouette III and lease civilian helicopters
The French Navy is not waiting for the Airbus H160 to be inducted as the replacement for its Alouette III fleet and will go ahead and replace them using leased civilian helicopters.
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USMC operating F-35B on sloped landing pads
The U.S. Marine Corps has constructed sloped landing pads of various gradients at MCALF Bogue in order to gauge how the F-35B performs on such surfaces.
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Incident involving Bulgaria’s C-27J
Bulgaria’s fleet of three C-27Js are all unable to fly after the last serviceable aircraft was involved in an accident at Graf Ignatievo Airport on Jan. 20.
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