Aviation News
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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A German-based company, 3W Modellmotoren, said its resellers might have resold some of its technologies to Belarus for the use in unmanned aerial vehicles.
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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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The Pentagon’s Defense Acquisition Board met last Friday to review the comprehensive plan for operational testing of the F-35.
Continue reading “Pentagon’s Defense Acquisition Board had “very painful” review on F-35 last Friday”
A UH-60 helicopter belonging to the South Korean provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan was damaged during an artillery attack at Bagram air base at around 9:58 p.m. on Monday.
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