Qatar has placed a follow-on order for 12 additional Rafale fighters from Dassault during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Doha on Dec. 7.
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Akash with indigenous RF seeker tested
India has tested its Akash air defense missile equipped with a local radio frequency seeker for the first time.
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EA-18G Block II might be equipped with UAV
During a media tour of Northrop Grumman’s mission systems facility outside Baltimore, Maryland, reporters were shown an unmanned aerial vehicle that folds inside a canister and designed to be carried on the EA-18G
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Three RC-135S Cobra Balls were airborne during launch of Hwasong-15
The Omaha World-Herald reports that three RC-135S Cobra Ball spy planes were airborne during the time North Korea test-fired the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile.
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MQ-9 to be armed with SDB
General Atomics has been awarded a $17 million contract to integrate the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) onto the MQ-9 Reaper.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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