Reuters reported that EADS could announce as soon as Friday that it won’t protest the US Air Force’s award of the KC-X aerial refueling tanker contest to Boeing.
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Testing puts LAIRCM on target to protect tankers
A Topeka, Kan. Air National Guard KC-135R is testing the compatibility of the Large Aircraft Countermeasures System with the aircraft’s basic role of refueling.
U.S. Air Force photo by Chris Neill
Singapore replaces Rapier with SPYDER-SR, Searcher with Heron 1
Singapore’s Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean told Parliament that the 30-year old Rapier air defense system will be replaced with the new SPYDER-SR. Singapore will also take delivery of the Heron 1 UAV this year, these will replace the RSAF’s Searcher UAVs.
U.N. apologized over Belarus Mi-24 export to Ivory Coast
The United Nations has backtracked from an official statement that Belarus sent Mi-24 attack helicopters to Ivory Coast in violation of a U.N. arms embargo.
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Iowa ANG in Australia
Here are some pictures and a video of the 185th Air Refueling Wing and 132nd Fighter Wing from the the Iowa Air National Guard in Australia for Exercise Sentry Down Under.