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Boeing has plan to test its new Chinook rotor blades this October. If successful, the heavy-lift helicopter will gain an extra 2,000lb for its maximum take-off weight.
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Denmark’s Parliament has approved the acquisition of 27 Lockheed Martin F-35As on Jun. 9. This makes Denmark the 7th partner nation of the JSF program and 11th nation to operate the F-35.
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History repeated itself again, this time in Netherlands after a Patrouille Suisse F-5 collided with another F-5 and crashed near Leeuwarden Air Base. The crash occurred hours after a Russian Knights Su-27 went down in Kubinka, Moscow.
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A Russian Knights Su-27 has crashed in the Moscow Region on Jun. 9. The pilot, Maj. Sergey Eremenko, is said to have been killed in the crash.
Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s new Osprey X-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been selected by the U.S. Navy for mounting on its MQ-8C VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle.
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