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Boeing Fires CEO in Attempt to Restore Credibility But Board Remains
CHICAGO --- Boeing announced today that its Board of Directors has named current Chairman, David L. Calhoun, as Chief Executive Officer and President, effective January 13, 2020. Mr. Calhoun will rema

French Air Force Carries Out Its First-Ever Drone Strike in Mali
PARIS --- France's armed forces said Monday it had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during operations in Mali at the weekend in which it said 40 "terrorists" were killed. On Saturday,

First Production Su-57 Fighter Crashes in Russia's Khabarovsk Territory
An advanced Russian Su-57 crashed in the taiga in Khabarovsk Territory on Tuesday. No one was injured, the TASS agency was told by the administration of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. "The fighter fell during

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Boeing Fires CEO in Attempt to Restore Credibility But Board Remains
CHICAGO --- Boeing announced today that its Board of Directors has named current Chairman, David L. Calhoun, as Chief Executive Officer and President, effective January 13, 2020. Mr. Calhoun will rema...

French Air Force Carries Out Its First-Ever Drone Strike in Mali
PARIS --- France's armed forces said Monday it had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during operations in Mali at the weekend in which it said 40 "terrorists" were killed. On Saturday,...

First Production Su-57 Fighter Crashes in Russia's Khabarovsk Territory
An advanced Russian Su-57 crashed in the taiga in Khabarovsk Territory on Tuesday. No one was injured, the TASS agency was told by the administration of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. "The fighter fell during...

F-16 Shoots Down Cruise Missile Target with APKWS Rocket
EGLIN AFB, Fla. --- The 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron shot down a subscale drone using an AGR-20A Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guided rocket on December 19, 2019, providing ...

Greece Signs €265M Contracts to Upgrade Mirage 2000-5 Fleet
The Greek Ministry of Defense announced on Monday December 23 that it had signed maintenance contracts with French companies Dassault Aviation, Safran Military Engines and Thales to upgrade the Mirage...

First S-350 Air-Defense System Delivered to Russian Troops
MOSCOW --- Russian troops have received the first set of the advanced S-350 ‘Vityaz’ surface-to-air missile system, the Almaz-Antey defense manufacturer announced on Monday. "The Almaz-Antey Group ...

Leonardo Flies Kuwaiti Eurofighter, Most Advanced Variant Yet
TURIN-CASELLE, Italy --- On the 23rd December 2019 at the Flight Test Centre of Leonardo Aircraft Division in Turin-Caselle, the first Instrumented Series Production Aircraft (ISPA 6) equipped with th...

F-35 Troubleshooting Team Stands Up to Deploy Worldwide
MCAS CHERRY POINT, N.C. --- When issues arise with an F-35 Lightning II, a team of highly skilled aircraft maintenance professionals stands ready to rise to the challenge and get the jet back in the f...

US Defense Budget to Allocate $175M to Baltic Countries
Next year the United States of America will allocate $175 million from its defense budget to support military cooperation and development in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with an additional focus on a...

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