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Germany plans to order six C-130Js
> > German newspaper Handelsblatt says Berlin plans to go on a shopping spree for new weapons and 18 contracts are to be approve by the budget...
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Belarus has transferred four MiG-29s to Serbia
> > Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in an interview with the Serbian Politika daily that the country has taken over four MiG-29s from Belarus. By...
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Mexico wants to buy MH-60R
> > The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress on a possible Foreign Military Sale to Mexico of 8 MH-60R helicopters. By U.S. Department of...
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Pentagon might keep Truman Carrier Strike Group in European theater
> > The Truman Carrier Strike Group might remain in the Mediterranean instead of being deployed to the Middle East, Defense News reported on Apr. 21. By...
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Leonardo wants to fit BriteCloud on Eurofighter, F-15 and F-16
> > Italian defense firm Leonardo is working on transforming its cylindrical BriteCloud missile decoy into a square format so that it can fit on the American...
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U.S. Army halts delivery of AH-64E over issue with nut
> > The U.S. Army has halt the delivery of AH-64Es from Boeing since February because a strap pack nut on the main rotor is corroding in...
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Lockheed Martin to offer hybrid of F-22 and F-35 to Japan
> > An anonymous source told Reuters that Lockheed Martin plans to offer a new fighter jet that “would combine the F-22 and F-35” to Japan for...
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India pauses FGFA program
> > India has decided to stop all work on the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program with Russia, Ajai Shukla reports. By Dmitry Zherdin [CC BY-SA...
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PAF to base FA-50PH at Basa airbase
> > Philippines will bed down all 12 of its FA-50PH at Basa Air Base by end of this year. By RoyKabanlit [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia...
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Lockheed Martin awarded $928 million for hypersonic conventional strike weapon
> > The U.S. Air Force on Apr. 18 awarded a $928 million contract to Lockheed Martin for “the design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning,...
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Flight Factor A320 Ultimate
> > One of our resident real world Airbus A320 pilots takes the recently released Flight Factor A320 Ultimate for a test flight, wringing it out in...
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Read It / Do It #01: North American X-15
> > Take a ride in a marvel of aerospace engineering that helped pave the road to space with the hypersonic North American X-15 rocket powered research...
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M2000C Red Flag Campaign by Baltic Dragon
> > Introduction Baltic Dragon. If you fly single player campaigns in DCS World, by now you must surely know this name. He has become a prolific,...
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ARMA 3 – Prologue & The East Wind
> > We take a look at the full ARMA 3 campaign that some fans may have overlooked as they dove straight into playing in the ARMA...
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CIVA INS Navigation Tutorial
> > Mudspike Contributor Casper ‘TheAlmightySnark’ de Wit first added this excellent CIVA INS Navigation Guide for X-Plane in our forums. It was so good as reference...
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Mudspike 3rd Annual DCS Fall Fly-In
> > It’s been a year since our last Mudspike DCS Fall Fly-In. Although we might be stretching the definition of Fall a little, we will be...
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MedCenter Air – Hurricane Season 2017
> > This hurricane season has not been kind to Central America, the Gulf of Mexico region, or the Caribbean. MedCenter Air crews, along with hundreds of...
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3rd Annual Mudspike Christmas Flight – 2017
> > Welcome again to our annual Mudspike Christmas Flight! For our third year running, we will deliver packages, hopes, (beverages), and spread good will across the...
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VKB-Sim Gunfighter (Pro) Bundle Review
> > Disclosure: Images that appear in this article were taken from one of three sources: vkbcontrollers.com website/store marketing materials, an Imgur album that rrohde (maintainer of vkbcontrollers.com)...
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MonsterTech Joystick/HOTAS Table Mounts Review
> > Mudspike Contributor @PaulRix shares his impressions of his recently acquired MonsterTech Table Brackets. Earlier this year, I upgraded my HOTAS from a Saitek X55 to...
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