BAE Systems Rokar’s Silver Bullet precision guidance kit was recently tested in Israel this Feburary.

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Northrop Grumman has launched a partnership with Italian firm Selex ES to import the latter’s infrared search track know-how to the United States.

Photo: Sgt Pete Mobbs/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons

A Northrop Grumman spokeswoman told Defense News that further details would be provided in May.

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An Iranian general says his country will not reverse engineer the S-300 missile defense system.

By RuLavan (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“S-300 is an operational system and doesn’t need reverse engineering,” Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said.

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Four soldiers were killed when their Black Hawk helicopter went down in the central province of Meta on May. 10.

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Two others on board were injured.

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The Pakistani Army successfully tested the Chinese HQ-7A (FM-90) SHORADS on May 11. The test was witnessed by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif.

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The Royal Netherlands Air Force will send one instructor and two student pilots to the Italian Air Force for training on the M-346.

By Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom (Alenia Aermacchi M346 3Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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The U.S. Air Force has redesign the nose art of a B-52H in honor of the veterans that served in the Vietnam war.

U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ted Daigle

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The Pentagon announced that it will send three CV-22s to Yokota Air Base, Japan in the second half of 2017.

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Seven more aircraft are scheduled to arrive by 2021.

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Gunnery Sgt. Michael Ott from Marine Air Control Squadron 4, Detachment Alpha gathered old parts to put together a solar-powered box to provide electrical juice for a TACAN unit.

Photo: USMC

It took him four-months from conception to implementation for his project. Along the way, he had to buy some resistors, an AC inversion system and a charge control system. Otherwise, the rest of the components were either from the trash or recycled old equipment.
According to Ott, the “Ott Box” has been running for more than 600 hours of uninterrupted service.

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