Aviation News
The newest aerial tanker in the U.S. Air Force, the KC-46, will not arrive at McConnell Air Force Base, Wichita until spring of 2017.
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Photo: Paul Weatherman/Boeing
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Whilst everyone was busy snapping pictures of the pair of F-22s parked at the static display area of Singapore Airshow 2016, one F22 was busy shuttling folks to and fro from the Singapore Expo during last weekend.
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Photo: SIM Kok Chwee
North Korea’s state media reported on Feb. 21 that the country’s leader Kim Jong-un had observed drills carried out by its Air Force.
The 451st Air Expeditionary Group lost a MQ-9 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan on Feb. 20 at about 9 p.m. Kabul time. There were no injuries or damage to civilian property as a result of the crash.
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U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys
Defense News says Turkey has taken an interest in the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). An anonymous source said Turkish procurement officials have sound out MEADS partner country Germany on the system.
By Bin im Garten (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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