Aviation News
South Korea’s former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been questioned whether he and his family memebers took money from arms dealer, Ham Tae-heon, in exchange for influencing the purchase of 8 AW159 naval helicopters in 2012.
Photo: LA(Phot) I Roberts/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. government will soon inform Congress on the sale of $1 billion worth of military equipment to Taiwan, including a AH-64E to replace one that was lost earlier.
By 玄史生 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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Moscow has ordered the guided missile cruiser Moskva to operate off the coast of Latakia, Syria and provide air defense cover to the Russian military contingent there.
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Six U.S. Marines died when their UH-1Y helicopter crashed on May 12 in Nepal during a flight to evacuate wounded Nepalese to a hospital. Here are the photos from that final mission, extracted from a camera retrieved from the crash site.
Lt. Col Alexander Haddad, 44th Fighter Squadron pilot, reached the 2,000 hours of flying the F-15 on Nov. 19 at Kadena Air Base, Japan.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Corey M. Pettis
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