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Tupolev Deputy CEO for Design and R&D, Valery Solozobov, told TASS that his company has received requests from wealthy individuals to convert the firm’s supersonic bombers into private business jets.
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Airborne Tactical Advantage Company brought its Kfirs to MCAS Beaufort on Nov. 6 for two weeks of training with pilots from VMFAT-501. Interestingly, the F-35Bs sport British roundels.
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Reuters has been told by four sources that Japan has decided to postpone a decision for the F-3 fighter program.
Retired Capt. Thomas J. Hudner, the only U.S. Naval Aviator to be awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War, has died on Nov. 13.
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An Iraqi Mi-17 helicopter crashed near the southern province of Kut on Nov. 12, killing all seven people on board.
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