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Twin-seat JF-17B project launched
A ceremony to launch the twin-seat JF-17B project was held in Chengdu, China recently with dignitaries from China and Pakistan gracing the occasion.
By Shimin Gu [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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F-117 might finally be going to the Boneyard
Although retired in 2007, the U.S. Air Force has maintained the F-117 fleet in a condition that allowed the fleet to be reactivated one day if needed. Now the U.S. Congress is ready send those mothballed aircraft from their climate-controlled hangars at Tonopah Test Range to the Davis–Monthan Air Force Base for scrapping.
By: U.S. Department of Defence [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Watch the F-22 do a low-level pass in Lithuania
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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