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Korea decided Tuesday not to select Boeing’s F-15 Silent Eagle (SE) as its next generation fighter, meaning that the $7.5 bil. project will start again from scratch. The nation’s arms procurement agency said it recommended the Boeing fighter jet to its top decision-making committee, chaired by Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, but the latter did not…
Fixed and rotary wing aircraft, for all their differences are actually very similar in how they actually fly. To a lay person, not grounded in the theory of aviation looking at two examples of the different types can lead them to think that they operate in two very different ways. If we look at two…
Malaysia has shortlisted five manufacturers as it seeks to buy 18 combat aircraft by 2015 to replace its ageing fleet of Russian-made MIG-29s, the defence minister said today. The choice was between the Britain-backed Eurofighter Typhoon, Sweden’s SAAB JAS-39 Gripen, France’s Dassault Aviation Rafale, Boeing’s F/A 18E/F Super Hornet and Russia’s Sukhoi Su-30, Industry sources…