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Canada will send six of its CF-18s to Iceland for the Icelandic Air Policing mission in May. Later in September, there will be another air policing mission in Romania.
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By John Davies – CYOW Airport Watch [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
In a written parliamentary reply to Lord West, the British government said it has no plans to buy the V-22 tiltrotor for its Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.
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General Atomics has entered into a research partnership with a consortium of Japanese industry, government, and academia groups to study how to let the company’s Guardian unmanned aerial vehicle fly in non-segregated Japanese airspace.
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Poland has decided against acquiring second-hand F-16s as the move is deemed to be expensive. Instead, Warsaw is studying whether to get new F-16s or F-35s.
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Beijing has called upon Washington to respect its air defense identification zone (ADIZ), after a B-1B crew flying over the area on Mar. 21 was warned by Chinese air traffic controllers.
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U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Robles
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