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Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi has announced that large-scale naval drills will be held before the end of the Iranian calendar in March 2016.
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During a recent test, a AGM-88F HARM Control Section Modification (HCSM) missile was able to ignore a radiating emitter that was trying to spoof the anti-radiation missile and successfully destroyed its intended target.
By TSGT KEVIN J. GRUENWALD, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
DARPA has approached the industry to create a small, single-use, unpowered delivery drone that will self-destruct once its mission is over.
Image: DARPA
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Starting from late 2017, Alenia Aermacchi will roll out the C-27 with winglets and uprated Rolls-Royce AE 2100 engines as the baseline configuration.
By Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Swiss Air Force F/A-18 carried out a visual identification of a Russian government jet with the Speaker of the lower house on board on Oct. 19.
By Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
Continue reading “Swiss F/A-18 intercepted Russian government jet, Moscow complained to Paris instead”