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Japan’s MIM-104 PAC-3 air defense missile systems will be upgraded with Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors starting from next year in order to enhance the air defense coverage during the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
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Airbus has delivered the fifth of eight C295 transport aircraft ordered by Kazakhstan.
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Photo: Kazakhstan Ministry of Defense
A Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 upgraded by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to the final operational clearance (FOC) configuration has flown for the first time.
Photo: Indian Ministry of Defense
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Flt. Lt. Richard Watts with the Royal Air Force’s 29(Reserve) Squadron at RAF Coningsby is the first person to clock 2,000 flight hours on the Eurofighter.
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A KC-135R Stratotanker flown by the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, makes a low-approach near the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), during an underway replenishment in the Pacific Ocean, Jul. 26.
U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason