A Bangladesh Air Force F-7 fighter crashed in the Bay of Bengal on Jun. 29 around 11:20 a.m. local time, the wreckage from the aircraft has been located but there is no sign of the pilot.
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F-35A in clean configuration couldn’t dogfight again F-16D with two drop tanks
A veteran U.S. Air Force pilot took AF-02 out to the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 14 this year for a simulated dogfight against a F-16D and he had troubles defeating his opponent using the new jet.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joely Santiago [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Israel starts training of David Sling operators
The first batch of Israeli air defense operators for the David Sling system has undergone training, the Ministry of Defense announced on its website.
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Brazil to place order for Pantsir next year
Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Jose Vallim Guerreiro told RIA Novosti that his country is to purchase the Pantsir air defense system as early as in the first half of 2016.
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Ukraine turns to crowd-funding for indigenous UAV
Ukraine has plans to build an indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle to survey enemy positions and it has a crowd-sourcing campaign to fund the program.