Aviation News
South Africa’s Paramount Group has reached an agreement with Boeing to jointly weaponize and integrate Boeing mission systems and ISR payloads on the former’s Advanced, High Performance, Reconnaissance, Light Aircraft (AHRLAC).
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The Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office opened its doors to Washington Post and they played a video showing how the F-16 and F/A-18 were able to deploy micro-UAVs from their flare dispensers.
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Two F-35As from the 58th Fighter Squadron dropped two GBU-12s at Shelby Range Complex, Florida on Mar. 3. This is the first time the F-35As assigned to Eglin Air Force Base have employed their weapons.
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Boeing employee Leslie Shook – who is the voice behind the cockpit warning system on the F/A-18 – has retired from the company. Here’s the video from Boeing on her role as “Bitchin’ Betty.”
On this day 20-years ago, China fired DF-15 ballistic missiles from Fujian province into waters off the island of Taiwan as a warning to the island not to seek independence.
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