Aviation News
The U.S. Air Force has brought forward a plan to integrate the GBU-49 smart weapon to the F-35A in order for the stealth fighter to persecute against moving targets.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Jim Haseltine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Royal Navy is retiring its Lynx naval helicopter this month and the rotorcraft will be making two flypasts on Mar. 17.
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Graphic: Royal Navy
The Italian Air Force will dispatch six of its Eurofighters to Iceland from Mar. 16 to mid-April for the Icelandic Air Policing mission.
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By Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (Eurofighter Typhoon – RIAT 2013) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Russian media reported that the pilot flying a Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 that crashed into the Black Sea on Dec. 25, 2016 had put the jet into a controlled descent shortly after take-off.
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