The first two Kamov Ka-31 AEW helicopters for the Indian Navy has been overhauled in Russia and redelivered back the customer by Russian Helicopters.
Photo: Russian Helicopters
The Indian Navy has nine such helicopters and six of those required overhauls to keep them serviceable.
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Roketsan unveiled a model of the SOM-J cruise missile designed to fit in the internal weapons bay of the F-35.
Photo: Shepard Media
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The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress on the potential upgrade of 60 Singapore F-16C/D/D+ fighters. This notification contains additional requirements not previously identified in congressional notification 13-67.
By Luhai Wong from Singapore, Singapore (_MG_7099) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The additional items include 50 Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System and 90 AN/APX-126 Advanced Identification Friend or Foe Interrogator/Transponders.
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U.S. Senator John McCain is asking the Pentagon not to invite China to the next RIMPAC exercise in 2016.
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Norway dispatched F-16s to intercept a Russia An-22 transport plane on May 3, shortly after the country took over the Baltic Air Policing mission.
Photo: Norwegian Air Force
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French daily Le Figaro reported that Paris may consider scuttling the two Mistral-class LHDs that were ordered by Russia.
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“Among the possible course of actions which is being considered by the French government is the possibility of the helicopter ships being destroyed. They will be dismantled, remodeled or sunk in the open sea,” an anonymous French official told the paper.
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Northrop Grumman has unveiled the Scalable Agile Beam Radar – Global Strike (SABR-GS) for the B-1B bomber during an event at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
Photo: Northrup Grumman
The company says the SABR-GS is nearly three times the size of the APG-83 fitted to the F-16.
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An experiment from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will fly on board the X-37B later this month.
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Dubbed the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space (METIS), the experiment aims to expose nearly 100 different materials samples to the space environment for more than 200 days.
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The Finnish Air Force is sending 16 F-18s to participate in exercise Cross Border Training North.
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Ten countries will take part in the war games in the northern Nordic region from May 25. Around 100 aircraft will fly over northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway over a 12-day period.
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Bob Ruszkowski, Lockheed Martin’s director of advanced air dominance and unmanned systems strategy, said the industry and the U.S. Navy will benefit from further testing of the X-47B.
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