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New UK National Drone Hub Facility to be Constructed at Predannack Airfield
An expansion of unmanned operations is underway at the Royal Navy airfield, which could soon be used by General Atomics MQ-9 and Leonardo AW09 (Proteus) type aircraft. Located in the far south-west of ...
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French Army Tests FPV Drone Controlled from Gazelle Light Attack Helicopter
The goal of the experimentation with FPV drones is to ‘accelerate cooperation between nano drones and Army Light Aviation ...
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Turkey’s ANKA III UCAV Drops TOLUN Guided Bomb from Internal Bays for the First Time
The internal launch, the first ever by a Turkish aircraft, demonstrated the ANKA III’s ‘ability to perform stealth strikes by ...
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Finnish Air Force to Participate in Icelandic Air Policing for the First Time
The Finnish Air Force will secure NATO skies by deploying four F/A-18 Hornets to Keflavik Air Base for the next rotation of ...
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Delivery of the First F-35Bs to Japan Delayed
The planned delivery of the first six F-35B Lightning II fighters for Japan in FY2024 has now been pushed back to sometime ...
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‘The Chinese Military is the Largest and Most Modern It’s Ever Been,’ Edwards AFB Commander Warns
By 2027, in areas west of the international dateline where U.S. assets are deployed, China will outnumber U.S. forces about ...
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A Rare Look Inside Israel’s Secretive KC-707 Re’em Tanker
Footage from inside an Israeli Air Force KC-707 Re’em tanker aircraft was recently published on the official IDF Instagram page, providing a rare tour of ...
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Kratos Signs $1.5 Billion Deal for DoD Low-Cost Hypersonic Testbed
American Defense firm Kratos has signed a $1.5 billion contract, its largest ever, with the Department of Defense for a ...
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MAFFS-Equipped C-130s Join the Fight Against Raging Los Angeles Fires
The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense. The MAFFS system can be installed inside C ...
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Some of the Old, Some of the New: Boeing’s P-26 “Peashooter”
The first all-metal low-wing monoplane pursuit aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was a pioneering but also transitional aircraft, and, along with serving stateside, saw service ...