Aviation News
This year’s iteration of the Avalon airshow in Melbourne, Australia could see the debut of the Lockheed Martin F-35A in the country.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devante Williams [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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By late 2019, the U.S. Marine Corps is expected to declare initial operational capability for the V-22 Aerial Refuelling System (VARS), starting with four Ospreys.
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, had proposed to forward deploy the U.S. Navy’s newest destroyer USS Zumwalt to South Korea.
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At a ceremony to sign a memorandum between the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) and National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) for the indigenous advance jet trainer, a model of NCSIST’s in-house AESA radar was shown to the public for the first time.
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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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