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Paris Air Show 2025: Poland orders Apache targeting systems and will establish local support facility
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Paris Air Show 2025: Airbus and France sign framework agreement for VSR-700
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Paris Air Show 2025: Milkor and Hanwha partner to integrate the latter’s SAR payload into the Milkor 380
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Lockheed to continue to LRPF Phase 2
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Denel to deliver more Casspir vehicles
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Air Power 2017: UK F-35 training takes off
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Turkish Coast Guard receives SAR vessels
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SharpEye radar for two Indonesian Ports
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Malaysian LMS team arrives in China
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Petards secures UK market contracts
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Finland, Bittium TAC WIN agreement
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Royal Navy locates US sonar lost at sea
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The UK Royal Navy’s Sandown class minehunter HMS Bangor has used its Thales 2093 Variable Depth Sonar to locate a US Navy AQS-24 towed sonar …
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Air Power 2017: 21st Century partnerships in the spotlight (video)
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German Fenneks to be reconfigured
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Brazilian Navy receives CSAR H225M
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Helibras, a local operation of Airbus Helicopters, recently handed over the first of three H225M helicopters in CSAR configuration to the Brazilian Navy. The aircraft, …
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Paris Air Show 2025: Boeing confirms “very early infancy” C-17 Globemaster III production restart discussions as European market opportunity looms
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Paris Air Show 2025: Airbus and France sign framework agreement for VSR-700
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Paris Air Show 2025: A400M production moved forward as development plans outlined
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Paris Air Show 2025: Poland orders Apache targeting systems and will establish local support facility
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Paris Air Show 2025: Airbus and France sign framework agreement for VSR-700
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Bids in for Canadian Bv206 replacement
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Paris Air Show 2025: Milkor and Hanwha partner to integrate the latter’s SAR payload into the Milkor 380
