Alert 5

The Russian Air Force will deploy MiG-31BMs in Siberia’s Novosibirsk region. The area was left without fighter cover after a fighter squadron based in the city of Omsk was disbanded in 1998.

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EADS has sweeten its offer to secure the fighter contest in South Korea by proposing to build 48 of the 60 Eurofighters in the country.

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A Tunisian Bell military helicopter crashed on Friday near an air base in the capital’s suburb of Aouina. There were five on board and two of them were injured.

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Tokyo and Washington have agreed plans to return land south of Kadena Air Force Base back to Okinawa.

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