The tail fin of a Bf 110 with kill markings by Luftwaffe pilot Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer in World War 2 has been sold at an auction for £107,550.
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Turkey said it shot down a Syrian helicopter on May 16 with two AIM-9 missiles, however Syria said it was just an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Photo by Airwolfhound

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Russia’s Krylovsky State Research Center (KRSC) has shown its Project 23000E supercarrier design dubbed Shtorm.

Photo: Nikolai Novichkov

The 90-100,000 tons warship can carry between 80 to 90 aircraft. Aircraft are launched by both a ski-jump ramp and two electromagnetic catapults.

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The Moroccan armed forces announced that missing F-16 pilot Lt. Yassine Bahti was killed in Yemen.

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An aircraft has been dispatched to retrieve his remains.

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German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung says Berlin has decided to purchase with the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS).

However, the German defense ministry declined to comment on the report, saying a decision would be announced before the end of June.

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The P-8A Poseidon Integrated Test Team (ITT) successfully completed ground testing of air-to-air refueling using the boom receptacle over a seven-day period from May 11.

Photo: Boeing

The team worked 24 hours a day to transfer 400,000 pounds of fuel onto the aircraft.

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The U.S. Navy has declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the Block 2 version of the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) on May 15.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Larry S. Carlson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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