News reports from India suggest India will likely scale down its order for the Ka-226T light utility helicopter.
By Vitaliy Ragulin (Пожар на Белорусской.) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
CH-53K conducted first over-the-horizon heavy lift and troop transport ship-to-shore ops
In a test over the Atlantic Ocean last month, the CH-53K conducted over-the-horizon heavy lift and troop transport ship-to-shore operations for the first time from USS Iwo Jima.
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Watch JGSDF Apaches carrying out 30mm gunnery firing in U.S.
Four AH-64Ds assigned to the 1st Battle Helicopter Unit, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force, are in Yakima Training Center, Washington for a combined arms training exercise with units from the 7th Infantry Division as part of Exercise Rising Thunder 21.
F-15I crew lands jet with just one main wheel and nose wheel
A Israeli F-15I strike fighter had a technical malfunction during a training mission and the crew was forced to make an emergency landing using just one main wheel plus the nose wheel.
TSGT KEVIN J. GRUENWALD, USAF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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B61-12 achieve FPU
The B61-12 nuclear bomb has achieve First Production Unit (FPU) on Nov. 23. This means that the bomb has entered production.
Graphic: U.S. DoE
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