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USAF uses first drone for C-17 post flight inspection
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE: The 412th Test Wing’s Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force used a quadcopter to conduct a maintenance...
Higher Defense Budgets Likely to Give Military Rotorcraft Market a Lift
Forecast International’s Platinum Forecast System 3.1 indicates that a total of 6,175 medium / heavy military rotorcraft will be produced...
Major MiG-35 Fighter Jet Orders by Kazakhstan and Peru Feasible
India, Kazakhstan, Peru and other countries may place big-ticket orders for the advanced Mikoyan MiG-35 (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-F) fighter...
Royal Australian Air Force and Airbus Partner on KC-30A Future Capability Roadmap
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Airbus today signed a research agreement to further develop the RAAF KC-30A’s capabilities....
US Senators Push for Sale of Guardian Drones to India
A top US Senator has strongly pushed for selling the state-of-the-art Guardian drones to India which "is going to be...
US DoD Officials Discuss Future Vertical Lift ‘Family of Systems’
The future of rotary-wing or vertical lift aircraft across the services is the focus of a Defense Department initiative that...
Australia Receives First EA-18G Growler
Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, today welcomed the first EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft to the Royal...
Raytheon, US Air Force upgrade MALD-J with anti-jam capabilities
Delivering improved performance at lower cost Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Air Force validated performance of an upgraded...
Il-76MD-90A’s First Flying Prototype Arrives at Zhukovsky for Trials
ULYANOVSK, Russia: The first flying prototype of the Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A airlifter has passed the initial phase of its factory tests...
USAF Prepares for All MQ-9 Force as MQ-1 Predator Retires
CREECH AIR FORCE BASE: For the past 21 years the Air Force has flown the remotely piloted MQ-1 Predator in...
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