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U.S. Air Force To Buy Turkish Air Force F-35 Lightning II Jets After S-400 Fiasco

U.S. Air Force To Buy Turkish Air Force F-35 Lightning II Jets After S-400 Fiasco

According to the Scramble Magazine report, Sources within the Pentagon revealed that US lawmakers have agreed on a bill setting policy for the Department of Defense, calling for sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of S-400 Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems on 9 December 2019. The National Defense Authorization …

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Russia Successfully Tested Sukhoi Su-57 Fighter Jet With New Second Stage Engine

Russia Successfully Tested Sukhoi Su-57 Fighter Jet With New Second Stage Engine

The Su-57 on display at the MAKS 2019 – Photo Credits: Liu Xuanzun/GT According to Rostec Aviation Cluster Industrial Director Anatoly Serdyukov, Russia’s state hi-tech corporation Rostec has conducted 16 flights of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet to test its new second stage engine. “Currently, the engineering bench tests of …

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Russian Air Defenses Shot Down American Drone Over Libya: U.S. Military Report

Russian Air Defenses Shot Down American Drone Over Libya: U.S. Military Report

On November 21, 2019, U.S. Africa Command lost an unmanned “remotely piloted aircraft” over Tripoli. According to Reuters report the U.S. military believes that unarmed U.S. Africa Command remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) reported lost over Tripoli, Libya, Nov. 21 was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it …

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Why U.S. Navy Uses Fleet Of Commercial Helicopters On Aircraft Carriers?

Why U.S. Navy Uses Fleet Of Commercial Helicopters On Aircraft Carriers?

In the recent photo published on the Scramble Magazine report, U.S. Navy uses a fleet of commercial helicopters fleet in support of aircraft carriers and other warships. In the below photo, we see two EC225LPs operated by Air Center Helicopters Incorporated performing vertical replenishment on USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). ACHI owns …

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