Pentagon acquisition executive John Young says the U.S. Air Force will spend $8 billion to upgrade 100 F-22 fighters, which he said would be “lesser models” without the modifications.br /br /The money, which will be used to create and install better software and make other unspecified modifications, is included in the 2010 defense spending blueprint [...]

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An important step for the Eurofighter Typhoon, the main European industrial collaborative programme: Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, has officially delivered to the Italian Air Force the first Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon produced in Italy.br /br /The aircraft – IS020 – taken in charge by Maj. Marco Bertoli, deputy-commander of the IX group of the [...]

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pA MiG-23 trainer fighter aircraft from the Hashimara airbase of Indian Air Force on Monday crashed near Alipurduar in north Bengal, but the two pilots bailed out to safety./ppThis is the seventh IAF aircraft crash this year and the third MiG to crash in the Dooars region of North Bengal./ppThe two pilots — Wing Commander [...]

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The MiG-35 (single seat) and MiG-35D (double seat) are the “4.5+” generation multi-role fighters, exhibiting the further development of the MiG-29K/KUB and MiG-29M/M2 fighters in the field of the combat efficiency enhancement, universality and operational characteristics improvement.
The MiG-35/MiG-35D main features are the following:
– the fifth generation information-sighting systems integration into aircraft airborne avionics;
– possibility of [...]

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