Aviation News
American F-15Cs and F/A-18s based in Japan have traveled to other air bases in the country to exercise with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force this month.
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The U.S. Air Force has given $37.7 million to Lockheed Martin for the “continued development of a new wing design for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile – Extended Range (JASSM-ER)”, the company’s press release said.
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Air & Space Magazine spoke to former Bell engineer Mike Folse, the man who created the AH-1 attack helicopter. Link to the story is below.
Source: Redstone Arsenal archives
Eighteen Lockheed C-5Ms assigned to Dover Air Force Base have been grounded for inspections following an incident in Spain whereby a C-5M had a nose gear locking issue while landing.
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Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said on Jul. 17 that his ministry is in talks with the Russian aerospace industry on “the development of an aircraft with a short take-off and landing, possibly with a vertical take-off and landing.”
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