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Italian aircraft maker Tecnam has announced plans to explore developing a two-seater, single turbofan military trainer jet that has a similar layout to the Heinkel He 162.
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has decided that the JASSM-ER missile is the platform to fit the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) payload.
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The Royal Armed Forces of Morocco said in a statement carried by state news agency MAP that a F-16 pilot missing in Yemen has died.
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A spokesman from the Australia Department of Defense has clarified that Assistant U.S. defense secretary David Shear had ‘misspoke’ on the deployment of B-1 bombers to Australia during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
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There are four trainee pilots taking the current class at Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Introductory Fighter School, one of them is a Qantas captain who took unpaid leave to try make the cut as a fighter pilot.
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