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During his speech at the CANSEC defence and military trade show in Ottawa, Canada’s Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said the issue of selecting a new fighter to replace the CF-18 “needs to be dealt with quickly.”
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Two Discovery Air Defence Services pilots who fly the Alpha Jet recently achieved more than 3,000 hours flying the advanced jet trainer.
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By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada (Aplha Jet) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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China and Russia have commence their first bilateral computer-simulated ballistic missile defense (BMD) command post exercise, dubbed Aerospace Security-2016.
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Graphic: Russian MoD
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Outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, has change tune on the subject of restarting the Lockheed Martin F-22 production line.
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