October 09, 2010 Military Aviation News
10/09/2010
The Philippine air force will acquire 26 trainer and combat utility aircraft from Italy and Poland to bolster its capability to carry out anti-insurgency attacks and respond to disasters, an official said Sunday.
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10/09/2010
France has stood up a squadron of Rafale F3 multirole fighters at its big fighter base at St. Dizier, in Eastern France, to train pilots transitioning to the new combat aircraft.
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10/09/2010
A severe funding shortfall is dogging the South African Air Force’s (SAAF) fighting ability and placing the highly expensive and capable Saab Gripen combat aircraft in danger of being mothballed. This means that, if funding levels continue at current levels, only the BAE Systems Hawk Mk120 training jets will be kept flying, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) 2009/10 annual report states.
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