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Australian Aerospace Limited, says it is on track to meet its 2010 schedule for deliveries of NH90 MRH multi-role helicopters to the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

David A. Fulghum has a story of IAI’s declassified Panther vertical takeoff and landing unmanned tiltrotor UAV.

In 1969, Ottus Air Force Base, Mass., saw the closing of the 551st Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing, home to the E-3 Sentry. For the first time in 41 years, three squadrons, which were components of that wing, have re-united to take part in the U.S. Pacific Command exercise, Valiant Shield 2010.

A defense expert from the Victoria University of Wellington has urged the government not to sell its Aermacchi MB339 jet trainers and restored them.
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