Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan officially launched the Sayyad-3 surface-to-air missile production line on Jul. 22.
Watch Russian Tu-22M3s, Il-76s arriving in China for Aviadarts 2017
Poll: Should an unmanned S-3 compete for the MQ-25A program?
The latest draft request for proposals for the MQ-25A competition suggests the U.S. Navy is only keen on having the aircraft acting as a mission tanker and less emphasis is given on its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. An artist concept from Lockheed Martin showed a Navy buddy tanking pod hanging on a pylon. Do you think the company might just refurbish the S-3s under storage and offer them as unmanned tankers?
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Graphic: Lockheed Martin
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China buys 4 Mi-171Es at MAKS 2017
Rosoboronexport disclosed that China has ordered four Mi-171E helicopters during the MAKS 2017 airshow and these rotorcraft will be delivered in 2018.
By Dmitriy Pichugin [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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MQ-25A will be a mission tanker
The U.S. Navy has issued a new draft request for proposals for its MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker and one of its two key performance parameters (KPP) is to do mission tanking.
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Graphic: Lockheed Martin
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