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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Credits: Airbus The Indian Ministry of Defence announced that it has signed a ₹22,000-crore contract with Airbus for 56 C-295 medium transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force. The Cabinet Committee on Security, headed by PM Modi, cleared the purchase a fortnight ago. According to Airbus, India has formalized the acquisition …
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Artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Dyess, Air Force Base, Texas, one of the future bases to host the new airframe. (Courtesy photo by Northrop Grumman) The U.S. Air Force now has at least five Prototypes of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber in …
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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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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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Two F-15C Eagles and an F-117 fly in formation over the skies of Fresno, Calif. before separating to land at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sept. 14, 2021. This week, two F-117 Nighthawks are participating in dissimilar air combat training missions along with F-15 pilots from the 144th Fighter …
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Credits: Boeing As we reported earlier, Boeing MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Drone refuels Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye command and control aircraft for the first time. Now according to the U.S. Navy, the service in partnership with Boeing has successfully carried out aerial refueling of F-35 fighter jet using an unmanned aircraft …
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The newly approved Burns Flat Test Range and Facility is an important new strategic asset available to Kratos, enabling Kratos to accelerate its drone testing and demonstration, further increasing Kratos’ ability to rapidly develop and demonstrate jet drones, supporting subsystems, and other tactical systems and aircraft (Picture source: Kratos) Kratos …
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Radio Kielce screen grab U.S.-based drone-maker Kratos Defense & Security Solutions unveil its XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned combat aerial vehicle on the international market at the 29th International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO 2021 in Poland. The XQ-58A is a low-cost tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) designed to deliver a combination of …
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Credit: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Corp has released a photo of the first prototype of its supersonic X-plane, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST), during the beginning of the final assembly process. X-59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) will be used to collect community response data on the acceptability of a …
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