Aviation News
A report from Izvestia says Russia is researching on a new ekranoplan – aka ground effect vehicle – that can perform rescue missions and resupply remote bases in Arctic and Pacific.
By Fred Schaerli (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Japan’s Fuji News Network is reporting that the U.S. Air Force’s B-2A stealth bomber will make its first appearance over Japan on Oct. 29 during the Japan Self-Defense Force Air Review.
By: Kenn Brown, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Five TC-90s that Japan has leased to Philippines will be transferred to the South East Asian nation free of charge, Tokyo announced on Oct. 25.
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The U.S. solider out in the battlefield will soon be able to download satellite images of the surrounding thanks to a micro-satellite being tested in space right now.
Continue reading “U.S. Army starts testing of its Kestrel Eye optical microsatellite”
Taiwan has fined Dassault, Thales and Safran for $268 million over commissions paid during the sale of 60 Mirage 2000 fighters to the island back in 1992.
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