Aviation News
Indonesia’s Vice President Jusuf Kalla has finally spoken up on a plan by the Air Force to buy three AW101 helicopters for VVIP duties.
Photo: Sgt Ray Cooper RAF/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. Air Force MQ-1 squadron that operates the unmanned aerial vehicle in Djibouti has inactivated on Oct. 7.
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Frank Miller
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Japan’s Defense Ministry hopes to have some women pilots in the Blue Impulse aerobatic team by 2020 so that they can participate in the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
By Cp9asngf (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is celebrating the 60th anniversary of tracking Santa’s yuletide journey. The website for this year will go online today and will be available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese.
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Image: RCAF
The U.S. Navy, together with BAE Systems, has delivered 110 Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS) units to Jordan for integration on Jordan’s CN-235 gunship program.
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U.S. Navy photo
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