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The Russian Defense Ministry is to buy six sets of mobile air defense radars for $35 million. The first two sets must be delivered next year and the rest by 2018.
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Hill Air Force Base announced that it is now modifying all three variants of the F-35 at the depot-level with the arrival of the first F-35C on Apr. 15.
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U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw
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Head of the Spanish Navy Adm. Jaime Muñoz-Delgado said his service might have to adopt the F-35B once the current AV-8Bs’ ran out of lifespan in the next decade.
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The U.S. Navy has certified the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command center aboard USS Carl Vinson, making the aircraft carrier the first to do so.
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South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has selected Hanwha Thales as the preferred supplier for the AESA radar to be mounted on the indigenous KF-X fighter.
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Source: KAI
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