According to Jane’s, U.S. defense secretary Ashton Carter is expected to offer the Textron AirLand Scorpion to the Indian Air Force.
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Chief of Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, is reportedly interested in evaluating the Scorpion as an intermediate jet trainer to replace the aging Kiran.
Source: Alert 5
U.S. Navy warships will now monitor U.S.-flagged commercial vessels that pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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The U.S. Navy has concluded that the mid-air collision between two F/A-18Cs from VFA-94 and VFA-113 on Sept. 12, 2014 was an accident.
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Both jets crashed in the waters near Marshall Islands and one pilot died.
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The U.S. Army has shortlisted Harris Corp. and Thales Defense and Security to each produce 50 hand-held, squad-level Rifleman Radios.
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Washington Post obtained a heavily redacted report on aviation safety hazards in Djibouti and found that civilian and military flights are constantly in danger of getting into an accident.
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The root of the problem lies with the civilian air traffic controllers hired by the Djibouti government. They had a range of bad habits such as sleeping on the job or texting on the phone while on duty. On certain occasions, they would punished U.S. military flight crews for a perceived lack of respect by forcing them to circle overhead until they ran low on fuel.
Conditions became so bad that the U.S. government eventually shifted UAV operations from Camp Lemonnier, which is situated at the Djibouti international airport, to another location in the country.
Source: Alert 5
The Rafale fighter has carried out its first guided firing of the Meteor air-to-air missile against an air target.
The test took place on Apr. 28 in Biscarosse.
Source: Alert 5
Turkey has an urgent requirement for an unknown number of armed unmanned aerial vehicles and interested parties have until May 25 to respond.
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Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) stated that both medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) or high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) models are under consideration.
Source: Alert 5
India’s Navy chief, Admiral RK Dhowan, told reporters that the sea trials of INS Arihant is going “very well.”
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Naval Graphics has an image showing all the commissioned and uncommissioned ships, boats and other vessels of the United States Navy as of Apr. 2015
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Brig. Gen. Viet Xuan Luong from the 1st Cavalry Division recalls his escape from South Vietnam as a nine-year-old boy.
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