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Argentina Plans To Buy 12 JF-17 Thunder Block III Fighter Jets For $664 Million

Argentina Plans To Buy 12 JF-17 Thunder Block III Fighter Jets For $664 Million

Argentina has allocated funding to procure the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC)/ Pakistan Aeronautical Complex FC-1/JF-17 in the country’s latest effort to recapitalize its fighter aircraft capabilities. The drafts budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022 includes USD664 million towards the purchase of 12 JF-17 Thunder Block III jets (including USD20 million …

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Watch: RC-135 Spy Plane Make Frightening Crosswind Landing at RAF Mildenhall

Watch: RC-135 Spy Plane Make Frightening Crosswind Landing at RAF Mildenhall

On September 7, 2021, an RC-135U Combat Sent electronic intelligence-gathering aircraft made a frightening crosswind landing at RAF Mildenhall in England. The RC-135 had returned from an intriguing mission that saw the spy plane circumnavigate the border of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. The video from the YouTube channel Airshow World shows …

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Mysterious Stealthy Aircraft Spotted At Lockheed Martin’s Radar Test Range

Mysterious Stealthy Aircraft Spotted At Lockheed Martin’s Radar Test Range

A mysterious stealthy low-observable aircraft was spotted at Lockheed Martin’s secretive Helendale radar-cross section (RCS) measurement facility. While we don’t know what this shape is intended to resemble, it provides a timely reminder of some of the exotic test work that’s clearly going on behind closed doors, at facilities like …

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