The Pentagon has set up a Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Crisis Response (SP-MAGTF CR) force that will provide limited defense crisis response in support of U.S. Embassies in U.S. Africa Command’s area of responsibility.
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Delivery of IA-407 to Iraq completed
The U.S. Army’s Armed Scout Helicopters Project Office has delivered the 24th and last IA-407 armed helicopter to Iraq.
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MV-22 to test aerial tanking concept this summer
U.S. Marine Corps officials tell U.S. News that the MV-22 will test a Boeing aerial tanking kit this summer.
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Canada’s Auditor General: RCAF search-and-rescue network at ‘breaking point’
Canada’s auditor general warned that the Royal Canadian Air Force’s search-and-rescue is stretched to the limit and some elements are near the “breaking point.”
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Lukashenko denies Russia setting up air base in Belarus
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has contradicted statements made by his defense minister Sergei Shoigu that Moscow will set up an air base in the country.
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