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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The French pilots in Mali doing battle from the sky
FRANCE 24 travels to Mali to meet French Mirage 2000 pilots running the air campaign out of Airbase 101, located around 10km from the Malian capital of Bamako.
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RNZAF pilot charged for Anzac Day 2010 helicopter crash
A Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot will be charged with negligence that caused a UH-1 to crash on Anzac Day in 2010.
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DARPA wants Predator-class UAV on LCS
DARPA has started a Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program to get the industry to come up with a Predator-class medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV that can fly and recover back from small ships such as the Littoral Combat Ship.
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10 QW-1M MANPADS seized off Yemeni coast
An Iranian dhow seized off the Yemeni coast in January was carrying 10 QW-1M Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS).
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