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India’s Minister of State for Defense Rao Inderjit Singh says the indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant will be handed over to the Indian Navy in December 2018.
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The Sunday Times reported that Boeing made an unsolicited bid to buy over Westland Helicopters from Italian firm, Finmeccanica. The offer was rebuffed.
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A ceremony was held at BAF Bangabandhu Base in Dhaka on Dec. 6 to induct the Yak-130 and AW139 search-and-rescue helicopter into service with the Bangladesh Air Force. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the guest-of-honor.
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The Israeli Air Force will inactivate one squadron of F-16 fighters in early 2017 once its F-35s arrived from the United States.
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Moscow and Astana have a new agreement over the lease of the Balkhash radar station on west coast of Lake Balkhash. The site currently has an operational Dnepr early-warning space radar.
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