Aviation News
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo told reporters to ask the Indonesian Air Force on the decision to replace the Super Puma VVIP helicopters with the AW101 during a ceremony at Institut Pertanian Bogor, West Java on Nov. 28.
Photo: Sgt Ray Cooper RAF/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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Afghanistan has place a $70 million order to buy eight sets of the Insitu ScanEagle UAS under the Foreign Military Sales program. These systems consist of 65 ScanEagle Air Vehicles.
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By U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt Guadalupe M. Deanda III [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Col. Henry Rogers, 455th Expeditionary Operations Group commander, reached 3,000 hours on the F-16 on Oct. 29 while deployed to Afghanistan.
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys
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The Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Ministry of Defense Maj. Gen (Res.) Amos Gilad said Russian jets had entered Israeli airspace at times since Moscow started its military intervention in Syria.
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A spokesman from Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) says allied air strikes in Syria continued despite the deployment of the S-400 air defense system in Syria.
Photo: Russian Defense Ministry
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