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The French Air Force’s 02.005 Fighter Squadron will mark its 75th anniversary this month and the squadron has painted one of its Mirage 2000 in a special paint scheme for the occasion.
The lost of a Israeli Air Force F-16I from 119 Squadron was probably due to a weight imbalance issue that the pilot was trying to rectify while returning to land at Ramon Air Force Base.
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The second and final C-130T for the Philippine Air Force will arrive home at Benito Ebuen Air Base in Mactan on Oct. 9, the service has revealed.
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Airbus is running into trouble selling 50 H225Ms to Poland after the latter’s Development Ministry broke off from talks on an offset deal that forms part of the contract for the purchase.
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NATO AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) reconnaissance planes flew their 1000th flight over Eastern Europe on Oct. 5, the alliance said.
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