Aviation News
The U.S. government has approved the sale of the Raytheon AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, to be used in forward-based mode, to several U.S. allies and security partners via Foreign Military Sales.
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Airbus Helicopters will announce a replacement for the H225-class of helicopter at the Paris Airshow this week. The project is given the code name X6.
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Bell believes that Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic are potential markets to sell its UH-1Y and AH-1Z helicopters.
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Raytheon expects the ADM-160 Miniature Air-Launched Decoy Jammer (MALD-J) to be deployed from the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornets and Growlers within the next couple of years.
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The U.S. Marine Corps has carried out the first MV-22 Osprey landing aboard a Dutch ship off the coast of North Carolina on Jun. 12.
Photo: Royal Netherlands Navy
Continue reading “MV-22 lands on board HNLMS Karel Doorman”