The Swiss Air Force discovered that sixteen of its F-5 fighters have cracks in their fuselage. Ten of them will have to be retired from service.
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By Peter Gronemann from Switzerland [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The problem was first noticed in 2014 and this year another crack surfaced in a second plane. This lead to a fleet-wide inspection.
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Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehgan will visit Moscow this week to discuss the sale of the S-300 air defense system.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/384) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic said his government will buy the Mi-17 or Mi-171 helicopter from Russia.
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Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma; Seymour-Johnson AFB, North Carolina; Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts; and Grissom ARB, Indiana are candidate bases for the first U.S. Air Force Reserve-led KC-46A location.
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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has successfully demonstrated swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of its Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) program.
A tube-based launcher that can send UAVs in rapid succession to overwhelm an adversary.
The small footprint of the launcher and the UAVs will enable the technology to be employed from ships, tactical vehicles, aircraft or other unmanned platforms.
Over a one month period, the Navy was able to get nine Coyote UAVs to synchronize amongst themselves and fly in formation.
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An anonymous Iraqi official told Reuters that the county is expecting its F-16IQs to return home sometime between July and August.
Photo: Lockheed Martin
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The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command grounded its T-6 II fleet last week over concerns with an engine oil line.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. David Richards [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The fleet is expected to resume flying today after undergoing inspections.
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A senior Embraer official said his company and Saab will start to export Gripens from Brazil from 2023.
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Alan Wilson [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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During the second quarter of 2015, Raytheon will test a modified Tomahawk Block IV missile nose cone attached to a T-39. The nose cone contains a new multi-mode seeker.
“Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile“. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The new seeker has both active and passive radio frequency antennas that will allow future Tomahawks to broadcast active radar as well as passively receive target electromagnetic radiation.
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The U.S. Navy has decided that it had collected enough data out of the X-47B program and will cease flight testing once aerial refueling testing is completed.
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By U.S. Air Force/Bobbi Zapka [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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