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The U.S. Army wants a new advanced 3,000 shaft horsepower turbine engine to its fleet of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters. For that, it selected the Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney, to accomplish the task.
By: Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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North Korea conducted a new test of its KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile today and the missile flew 500km towards the direction of Japan.
Photo: Rodong News
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A Russian MiG-29SMT fighter pilot mounted two GoPro cameras during his flight, one on the canopy and the other one on his helmet.
Retired Air Force Col. Fred Claussen was reunited with the F-105D that he flew in combat over Vietnam 46-years ago on Aug. 21 at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale.
By Ad Meskens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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China recently qualified a new batch of J-15 pilots for aircraft carrier operations, the PLAN announced on its website.
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