Aviation News
ProPublica, non-profit investigative news organization, has evidence that Syria had tried to ship it’s Mi-25 attack helicopters back home from Russia via Iraq.
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India will test it’s newly developed Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) interceptor missile in an exoatmospheric intercept next month.
Continue reading “India to carry out exoatmospheric BMD intercept next month”
U.S. Army acquisition chief Heidi Shyu and other officials have backed a plan to buy new armed scout helicopters instead of extending the life of the OH-58.
Continue reading “U.S. Army officials keen to buy new armed scout helicopter”
The Neuron UCAV has made its first flight in French Istres on Dec. 1.
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Worried that the U.S. defense industry could lose the capacity to generate new designs for military helicopters, the Pentagon said it may fund initial work on a new military helicopter in a year or two.
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