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Since September, Boeing engineers have been busy at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, swapping the old APG-70 radars on the F-15Es there and replacing them with the state-of-the-art APG-82 AESA radar.
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Bulgaria’s fighter competition to replace its MiG-29 has been expanded to include second-hand Eurofighters from Italy.
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The co-pilot of a Indonesian Army Bell 412 by villagers on Dec. 8, two weeks after his helicopter crashed while on a supply mission in North Kalimantan.
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Retired Lockheed Martin test pilot Jon Beesley was back in Fort Worth this month to celebrate the first flight of the F-35. Beesley flew the maiden flight of the F-35 on Dec. 15, 2006.
The Su-35s that the Russian Ministry of Defense are deploying to Karelia have arrived.