Aviation News
As they await for the arrival of the PLAAF 2nd Fighter Division in the afternoon, airmen from the Royal Thai Air Force’s Wing 1 at Korat airbase gathered to wish King Bhumibol Adulyadej a happy birthday. The King of Thailand will celebrate his birthday on Dec. 5.
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TASS says China is expected to take delivery of the S-400 air defense system between one to one-and-a-half years time.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/449) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Radio-Electronic Technologies Concern (KRET) says it is delivering the Khibiny-10V/L-175V jamming pods to the Russian military this month, the new pods will allow the Su-34 to act as an escort jammer.
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The Pentagon confirmed that two B-52 bombers from Guam flew near Chinese artificial islands in the South China Sea on Nov. 8 and 9.
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To prepare for the arrival of the HV-22, NAVAIR had an Osprey perform roll-on landings and takeoffs from the angled deck of an aircraft carrier last month.
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