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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.
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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
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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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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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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By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/459) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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