Aviation News
The U.S. Air Force in Djibouti partnered with the French Air Force in a training exercise in which U.S. HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters recovered downed aircrew while being engaged by enemy fighters, simulated by French Mirage 2000-5 fighters.
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Iran has given an indigenous clone of the ScanEagle to visiting Russian Air Force chief Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev in Tehran on Monday.
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The crew of a USAF F-15E had to switch the radar to gun mode in order to locate and avoid a Eastern Airways Jetstream JS41 passenger plane over Scotland.
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The South Korean Air Force told parliament that it has been losing 2.5 fighters each year since 2000.
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Office of Naval Research (ONR) together with F-35 Program Office, Naval Air Systems Command, GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems and Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory, has managed to automate the process of manufacturing the F-35 canopy.
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