Two F-22s and one KC-135 arrived at Šiauliai Air Base Air Base, Lithuania on Apr. 27. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė was there to welcome the airmen from 95th Fighter Squadron and 100th Air Refuel Wing.
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Photo: gr. Arnas Glazauskas
X-2 expected to clock around 50 flights during test campaign
Flight Global interviewed Hirofumi Doi, manager of Japan’s Future Fighter Program at the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), and Doi said the X-2 demonstrator will fly around 50 flights.
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Britain’s Protector UAV is actually the Certifiable Predator B
The Protector unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that the British Ministry of Defense is buying has been revealed to be the Certifiable Predator B (CPB) from GA-ASI.
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Image: GA-ASI
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Russia not planning to deliver S-300 air defense missile system to Syria
When asked whether Russia will deliver the S-300 air defense missile system to Syria, head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Alexander Fomin said there are no plans to do that.
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Israel developed the first app for the F-35
Aviation Week looks at the implications of having operators write their own software applications that will run inside the mission computers of the F-35. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is the first company to do so for the Israeli Air Force.
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Photo: U.S. Air Force