Aviation News
A German Tiger helicopter crashed and burn during a training exercise near Ettal in the Bavarian Alps on Monday. Two crew members managed to escape unhurt.
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Turkey has selected the DB-110 airborne reconnaissance system for the Turkish Airborne Reconnaissance Program.
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Bell believes that its third generation tilt-rotor design is the answer for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role/Future Vertical Lift (JMR/FVL) program.
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Lockheed Martin has received a $71 million Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) modification contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to do an additional air-launched LRASM flight test from a B-1B in 2013.
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An Indian Navy Chetak helicopter with four crew members on board crashed on Tuesday. Two were rescued and the rest are missing.
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