Aviation News
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.
Photo: Leonardo
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Indonesia’s Ambassador in Moscow, Mohamad Wahid Supriyadi, told RIA Novosti on Jun. 8 that his country is still in talks to buy eight Su-35 fighters.
By Aleksandr Medvedev (http://russianplanes.net/id78098) [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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VMFA (AW)-242 and VMFA-314 deployed their F/A-18s and Marines from MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, to Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, to participate in exercise Red Flag-Alaska 16-2.
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