Attack on Bagram air base destroys CH-47

Insurgents attack Bagram air base, Afghanistan and one round hit a NATO CH-47 helicopter. Three Afghans inside the helicopter were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.

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First upgraded CH-53GA handed over to Germany

Eurocopter has handed over the first modernized CH-53GA transport helicopter to the German armed forces (Bundeswehr) at the ILA Berlin Air Show.

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Russia to rely less on foreign-made missile chassis

Russia wants to switch the missile chassis made by Minsk Wheeled Tractor Plant to an indigenous one. Majority of Russia’s air defense systems uses chassis made by the Belarus company.

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