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Six Belgium Air Force F-16s left Kleine Brogel Air Base on Jun. 27 for Jordan where they will join the coalition fighting against ISIL.
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By Gerard van der Schaaf (FA-72) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Operators of Taiwan’s FORMOSAT-2 has almost given up hopes of recovering the spacecraft from safe mode after it lost its second reaction wheel recently. FORMOSAT-2 is a locally developed high-resolution optical satellite with a 2-meter resolution.
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Lockheed Martin’s AN/TPQ-53 counter-battery radar has proven that besides detecting incoming artillery and rocket fire, the active electronically scanned array radar system can be used to detect unmanned aerial vehicles as well.
Photo: Lockheed Martin
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A pair of Indonesian Air Force fighters approached a Royal Malaysian Air Force C-130 cargo plane while the latter was in the vicinity of Natuna Islands in the South China Sea.
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission has released photos of its unmanned aerial vehicles coming under attacks in Ukraine’s eastern border areas.
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