VP-5 has become the first Boeing P-8A squadron to win the Atlantic Fleet Battle Efficiency (“E”) award. The unit beat five other squadrons to the award.
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U.S. Navy P-3 had close encounter with Chinese KJ-200
A U.S. Navy P-3 maritime patrol aircraft had an unsafe close encounter with a Chinese KJ-200 early warning aircraft near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, CNN reports.
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Luftwaffe has only one serviceable A400M, out of eight
The German Air Force revealed that seven out of its eight A400M transport planes are unable to fly. Days after Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen was forced to switch aircraft in Lithuania.
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F-15Cs from 142nd Fighter Wing are now equipped with Sniper Pod
F-15Cs from the 142nd Fighter Wing participated in Sentry Savannah 17-2 exercise in Georgia recently and one of the jets was seen carrying a Lockheed Martin Sniper targeting pod.
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3 E-2Cs suffered engine damage due to wrong lubricant
Three E-2C Hawkeyes assigned to VAW-124 had their engines swapped out just days before they left for a cruise aboard USS George H.W. Bush after it was discovered that the powerplants had been given a wrong type of lubricant.
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