Aviation News
Poland will scale back the purchase of Airbus Helicopters H225s from 60 aircraft down to between eight and ten air frames.
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By Laurent ERRERA from L’Union, France [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Tuoi Tre news was given a rare tour of Vietnam’s 935 Fighter Jet Regiment, which flies the Su-30MK2.
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Photo: Tuoi Tre
Qinetiq North America has won a $16 million contract to supply control hardware and software for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System(EMALS) and the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) to be installed on USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
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By U.S. Navy photo illustration courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding/Released [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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KC-135Rs assigned to the 507th Air Refueling Wing are slated to be the first Air Force Reserve Command tankers to be retrofitted with the new KC-135 Block 45 upgrade starting in February 2016.
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U.S. Air Force Photo/Maj. Jon Quinlan
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Amateur footage on YouTube purportedly shows the Bahraini F-16 in flames before hitting the ground in Saudi Arabia. The jet crashed on Dec. 30.