Aviation News
DARPA is showing an interesting project for a Flying Missile Rail (FMR) that carries at least one AIM-120 air-to-air missile and can fly on its own for 20 minutes at Mach 0.9.
MD Helicopters of Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $1.3 billion contract on Sept. 5 to supply an estimated quantity of 150 MD 530F helicopters to Afghanistan.
By Staff Sgt. Perry Aston (USAF) (dvidshub.net) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Myanmar Air Force Soko G-4 training jet went missing on Sept. 5 and a search is underway. The jet took off from Pathein and contact was lost at 0918 local time.
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Graphic: Myanmar military
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told Rossiya-24 television station that future aircraft carriers could be built at the Zvezda shipyard in the Far East.
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Four additional THAAD launchers left Osan Air Base, South Korea for Seongju this morning and scuffle broke out between protesters and the police.
