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How the UK scrambled to stand up Sea King AEW fleet after HMS Sheffield attack
The deadly Exocet attack on HMS Sheffield brought home the need to rapidly regenerate airborne early warning in the Royal Navy, which had disappeared with the Fairey Gannet. As the service’s last Westland Sea Kings are retired, we recall Project LAST — the programme that brought the helicopter into operation in this role
Military
USMC starts divesting RQ-21A Blackjack UAVs
As part of the radical re-organisation of the USMC under the Force Design 2030 programme, the service has retired its first two Boeing Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack UAVs
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IAI to upgrade Sri Lanka’s dormant Kfir fleet
Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a contract – worth US$50m – with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence to locally upgrade the avionics systems of the nation’s fleet of IAI Kfir multi-role fighters
USAF releases new artist’s rendering of B-21 Raider
A new graphic showing an artist’s concept of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider was released by the USAF on July 6
Commercial
Final USN Frontline Hornets Stood Down
Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34 ‘Blue Blasters’held a sundown...
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