Aviation News
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been funding Aurora’s SideArm UAV launch and recovery system for the Tactically Enhanced Reconnaissance Node (Tern) program. A video showing how the actual system works has been posted online.
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A F/A-18C from VMFA-232 crashed near Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England on Oct. 21, 2016. BBC has seen the accident investigation report which says the Hornet’s Inertial Navigation System was not “100%” before it took off.
By English: Cpl Aubry L. Buzek [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Brazil had walked away from plans to buy the Pantsir-S1 self-propelled air defence system from Russia, Jane’s reported.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/372) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Taiwan’s UDN reports that The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) commander Gen. Shen Yi-ming will sign a memorandum with National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) for the advanced jet trainer program tomorrow.
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Iran says its has tested its indigenous air defense missile systems during a recent war game dubbed “Defenders of the Velayat Skies.” One such system is the Sayyad-2.