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A B-52 returns
https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2550248/tinker-completes-b-52-restoration-as-wise-guy-re-enters-arsenal/- edwest4
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- 2021 air force global strike command cold war ii early 2020s heavy bomber nuclear battlefield strategic bomber united states air force usaf
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RCAF Airbus CC-150 Polaris Replacement Program
In January of 2021, the RCAF issued an ITQ to replace their 40 year old CC-150 Polaris tanker aircraft. The requirement states that their replacement must be operated by a fellow NATO nation, thus narrowing the tender to the KC-46 and A330 MRTT. The A310s were originally purchased by Wardair...- Jason Dykstra (Wyvern)
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- airbus a310 mrtt airbus cc-150 airbus cc-150 polaris airbus cc-150 polaris replacement airbus cc-150 replacement cold war ii early 2020s rcaf acquisitions royal canadian air force
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USAF rethinks future fleet, ponders clean-sheet 4.5-generation fighter
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/usaf-rethinks-future-fleet-ponders-clean-sheet-45-generation-fighter/142471.article USAF considering either new F-16 purchases, or developing a clean-sheet 4.5 gen design that would be more rapidly updatable. “If we’re going to do software defined, and...- DWG
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- cold war ii early 2020s united states air force
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AW139 two decades
Today is 20 years since the AW139 took Flight https://www.leonardocompany.com/en/press-release-detail/-/detail/03-02-2021-2-leonardo-celebrates-the-aw139-helicopter-s-20th-anniversary-of-its-1st-flight?f=%2Fhome First time I came across AW139 or then BellAgusta AB139 was these Mock ups at...- RavenOne
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- 2000s 2010s agustawestland bell agusta aerospace company bell helicopter company bellagusta cold war ii early 2020s early 21st century leonardo leonardo s.p.a. post-cold war war on terror
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Replacement of Challenger 2 with Leopard 2
I've seen a number of threads on Youtube that is suggesting that the British Army is considering replacing it Challenger 2's with Leopard 2's instead of undertaking the CLEP. I've got to admit the videos are not brilliant; one of the makers Huff Hack is awful - the read of the stats of various...- JohnR
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- british army cold war ii early 2020s federal republic of germany united kingdom
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Made In Space
Video regarding their forthcoming Archinaut One satellite due for launch in 2023. View: https://youtu.be/ir_SLjykvRE- Flyaway
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- 3d printing early 2020s nasa nasa tipping point project on-orbit service assembly manufacturing osam 2 united states
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NASA Chief Plans To Step Aside Under Biden
This seems a bit of shame as he hardly seems to have been in the job five minutes. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/nasa-chief-plans-step-aside-under-biden- Flyaway
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- early 2020s nasa
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KC-Y
It looks like the KC-Y is back on the table & likely will be contested between the KC-46 & A330. https://www.airforcemag.com/after-kc-46-usaf-looks-ahead-to-bridge-tanker/- Flyaway
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- air force materiel command air mobility command airbus boeing bridge tanker cold war ii early 2020s in-flight refueling tanker lockheed martin tanker aircraft united states air force
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H-6N & Air-launched Anti-ship ballistic missile (ALBM/AShBM)
Rumoured since some time but confirmed only know View: https://twitter.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1317346711682093056 View: https://twitter.com/OedoSoldier/status/1317316788594438144- Deino
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- cold war ii early 2020s late 2010s people's liberation army air force people's republic of china
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Snapped Cable Damages Arecibo observatory radio telescope:
Scott Manley video: View: https://youtu.be/4V3VCt24tkE- Flyaway
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- 2020 arecibo chronicle disaster early 2020s nasa national science foundation photo radio telescope
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Balloon rides to the edge of space.
Maybe... https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/firm-offer-balloon-rides-alaska-edge-space-71531073?cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed -
VIPER Lunar Rover
ASTROBOTIC AWARDED $199.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO DELIVER NASA MOON ROVER JUNE 11, 2020 Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landing Pittsburgh, PA – Astrobotic, the world’s leading lunar logistics service...- Flyaway
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- artemis program cold war ii early 2020s lunar robots moon nasa robotics
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Neptune Odyssey: Neptune-Triton orbiter mission
Details of this proposed mission on the links below: Attached is a presentation detailing the mission from: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/exoplanets2020/presentations/Rymer.pdf- Flyaway
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- deep space probes early 2020s nasa
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New mini-torpedo for USN?
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U.S. Navy T-45 Replacement Program
The U.S. Navy's new T-45 replacement program must be putting a premium on costs savings. I say that considering it won't be able to shoot cats and traps. According to the article they'll just be performing touch and goes on the carrier. I would be shocked if it wasn't the T-7 that gets chosen...- Sundog
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- early 2020s united states navy
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Boeing FARA
Alone among the FARA contenders, Boeing have yet to fully reveal details of their submission, apparently designed by the company's 'Phantom Works'. They did release a teaser video - some screenshots of which are shown at https://facebook.com/aerospaceanalysis/- Jackonicko
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- boeing early 2020s future attack reconnaissance aircraft late 2010s u.s. army united states army
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The US Air Force isn’t buying light attack planes
Sorry, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Textron: The US Air Force isn’t buying light attack planes https://www.defensenews.com/smr/federal-budget/2020/02/10/sorry-sierra-nevada-corp-and-textron-the-us-air-force-isnt-buying-light-attack-planes/ I'm sorry, but yet another scitsophenic episode by the... -
NASA Curiosity (Mars Rover)
With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed...- Flyaway
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- 2014 2024 cold war ii early 2010s early 2020s early 21st century jet propulsion laboratory mars nasa post-cold war robotics
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Australian Army Land 400 Ph3 Competition.
This is the Australian Army approximately $10-15 billion project to replace the ageing M113 APCs, with an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) and APC. Up until yesterday, there were 4 contenders: Rheinmetall's Lynx KF41 BAE Systems CV90 MkIV IFV Hanwha Defense Systems AS21 Redback General... -
Snoopy lunar module from 1969 Apollo 10 mission may have been found
https://news.sky.com/story/snoopy-lunar-module-from-1969-apollo-10-mission-may-have-been-found-11738299- Flyaway
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- apollo lunar module apollo program cold war early 2020s early 21st century late 1960s late 20th century lunar excursion module lunar module (apollo) moon nasa space age space race united states
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- Forum: Aviation & Space