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India has suffered a setback in its bid to create a missile defense shield when a test firing of the Advanced Air Defence interceptor failed on Apr. 6.
“AAD Test Crop” by Sniperz11 – http://frontierindia.net/album/main.php?g2_itemId=65, Copyright to Frontier India Defence and Strategic News Service (FIDSNS) (website).. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 in via Wikimedia Commons.
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Finnish Defense Minister Carl Haglund has refuted a report from Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri saying that the Saab Gripen is a strong candidate to replace Finland’s F/A-18s.
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By Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (Saab JAS-39C Gripen – RIAT 2014) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) Slingsby T67 Firefly two-seat aerobatic training aircraft crashed on Apr. 6, killing the Jordanian instructor and a Iraqi student pilot.
By Adrian Pingstone (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Kenyan Air Force carried out two air strikes on Apr. 5 on al Shabaab camps in Somalia.
“KAF F-5 Tiger II Jet preparing” by Antoisurf – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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A JGSDF OH-6 helicopter made an emergency landing in a rice field earlier today in Sendai city.