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Russia to sell Mi-17 helicopters to Argentina



Russia to sell Mi-17 helicopters to Argentina

RIA Novosti. Alexei Kudenko

Russia has signed a "historic" contract on Mi-17 helicopter deliveries to Argentina, a member of a Russian delegation said on Wednesday.

"The contract provides for the delivery of two Mi-17 helicopters to the Argentinean Air Force," the official said, adding that the contract was signed on Tuesday evening.

The sale is the first time the Argentinean military has bought Russian military hardware, he said.

"Until now there has been no military-technical cooper...



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First Flight for New HELLFIRE II Missile Design



First Flight for New HELLFIRE II Missile Design

Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO, Fla: Lockheed Martin's new multi-functional AGM-114R Hellfire II missile scored a direct hit during its first proof-of-principle (POP) flight test recently at Eglin Air Force Base, FL.

The Hellfire II design, now entering the qualification phase, features a new multi-purpose warhead that enables a single missile to cover all of the target sets of the current laser-guided Hellfire II variants.

The POP 1 flight test featured a lock-o...



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Yesterday, 09:14:18 PM




F-4 group holding conference in Panama City



F-4 group holding conference in Panama City

DANIEL CARSON / News Herald Writer

PANAMA CITY — A national nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the history of the F-4 Phantom fighter jet will hold its annual conference in the Panama City area this year, a group spokesman said Monday.

The F-4 Phantom II Society’s “PhanCon” is scheduled for Sept. 20-23, with the group’s members planning to visit Tyndall Air Force Base and Pensacola’s Naval Air Museum as part of the conference.

The F-4 group last held its annual meeting in Panama City about five years ago, said James Thompson, the society’s event coordinat...



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Yesterday, 09:06:01 PM




Iceland set to embrace war-game fliers



Iceland set to embrace war-game fliers

Gudmundur Petursson worked for years as a contractor for the US military at Keflavik airbase on the Reykjanes peninsula, south-west Iceland. Now, he is waiting for a green light from the Icelandic government to start building a 15,000 sq metre hangar for a fleet of Russian-made fighter jets.

Mr Petursson, chief executive of FM Service, an Icelandic facility management company, is a cheerleader for plans by a private military training company to base up to 33 Sukhoi “flanker” jets at Keflavik for use by air forces worldwide as mock enemy in aerial war games.

“Most people around here are very positive about it because it will bring a lot of jobs and keep technological expertise here,” he sa...



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