Brazil is in the “final chapters” of selecting a new fighter, its defense minister Celso Amorim said on Saturday.
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Japan to get AF F-117s
Worried that MHI’s ATD project will take away some orders of the F-35 in Japan, Lockheed Martin has convinced Washington to transfer some surplus F-117 stealth fighters to Japan.
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Fighter manufacturers expecting a fight in Chile
The Chilean Air Force needs to replace its aging F-5s by 2015 and aircraft manufacturers from Europe and U.S. are preparing for a contest.
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The Soviet Air Force in World War II
Research by Von Hardesty and Ilya Grinberg on the Soviet Air Force during World War II has uncovered many new findings.
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USMC Brigadier: Full-motion video is as alluring as pornography
Speaking at the TechNet Land Forces conference in Tucson, Arizona, the former commander of the 13 Marine Expeditionary Unit warned that U.S. military commanders are slowly being addicted to the full-motion video provided by ISR platforms and moving towards centralized decision-making and just-in-time decisions.
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