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Finnish Hornets and Swedish Gripens to practice operating from road runway

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by alert5

Finnish F/A-18s, Hawks and two Swedish Gripens will operate from a road runway at Hosio sometime between Sept. 18-26.

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Russian Mi-24 crashed landed

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by alert5

A Russian Mi-24 gunship crashed landed at Dvoevka airfield in the Smolensk region on Sept. 16. There were no injuries during the accident which happened at 08:30 p.m. Moscow time.

By Igor Dvurekov (http://russianplanes.net/id58894) [GFDL 1.2, GFDL 1.2 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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RNZAF P-3K2 in South Korea and Japan for training exercise

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by alert5

The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) 5 Squadron will send a P-3K2 to South Korea and Japan for a series of training exercises.

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Japan selects KC-46A

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by alert5

Asahi Shimbun reported that Japan has decided to buy the KC-46A as its next aerial refueling tanker. A tender for the new tanker closed on Sept. 8 and Boeing was the sole bidder after Airbus withdrew from the competition.

Photo: Boeing
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