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U.S. Air Force Hill fighter wings conduct combat exercise

The active duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th FW conducted an integrated combat capability exercise April 30-May 2 at the Utah Test and Training Range. The friendly and enemy forces were made up...

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Iran’s Guards commander says U.S. military presence in Gulf is ‘an opportunity’: ISNA

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday, according to the Iranian...

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Ukrainian and UK Ships Hold Joint Drills in Black Sea

Ukraine’s Pryluky missile boat and the Echo hydrographic survey ship of the UK Royal Navy have conducted joint military drills in the Black Sea, the press service of the Ukrainian Navy said on Friday....

IDEF 2019: Turkey to buy 29 new armoured recovery vehicles 0

IDEF 2019: Turkey to buy 29 new armoured recovery vehicles

Following trials with a prototype multi-purpose armoured recovery crane (MPARC), developed by the Machinery Production Group (MPG) of Turkey, a total of 29 production units are to be delivered to the Turkish Land Forces...

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Lockheed’s F-35 $1.5 Trillion Operational Cost Just Grew – Again

Apparently, the Pentagon prefers to dole out information about costs of the F-35 program in portions. Lambasting Lockheed Martin’s F-35 multirole fighter for its cost has become almost passé at this point. With its $1.5 trillion...

More Sukhoi Su-30SMs arrive in Kazakhst 0

More Sukhoi Su-30SMs arrive in Kazakhstan

A Further four Sukhoi Su-30SM fighters have been handed over to the Kazakhstan Air Defence Force (KADF). New KADF Su-30SM ‘12 Red’ taxies in to its parking spot on the ramp at Taldykorgan after...

New Turkish Gendarmerie Aviation S-70i Black Hawks handed over 0

New Turkish Gendarmerie Aviation S-70i Black Hawks handed over

Turkey’s Jandarma Genel Komutanli?i (Gendarmerie General Command) has taken delivery of its first two S-70i Black Hawks. They were formally handed over during a December 5 ceremony attended by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs,...

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DoD awards Bahraini Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters contract

Bahrain will receive 12 Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters by the end of August 2022, under a contract announced by the US Department of Defense (DoD) on 7 February. The USD240.3 million Foreign Military...

Hungarian Air Force Dassault Falcon 7x on tour 0

Hungarian Air Force Dassault Falcon 7x on tour

Hungarian Air Force Dassault Falcon 7x serial 606 is seen at Brussels Airport on November 5. Hungarian Air Force Dassault Falcon 7x (Photo by Christopher Wells) The large-cabin, 5,950nm-range Falcon is part of an...

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Papua New Guinea Bell 212 demo in Port Moresby

PNGDF Incident Response Group soldiers rappelfrom Bell 212 P2-HCW in Port Moresby on November 5. (Photo by Commonwealth of Australia/ABIS Kieran Whiteley)A Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) Bell 212, P2-HCW, was used for...