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Joint British-Qatari Hawk squadron to be based at RAF Leeming

… will become the British base for the new UK-Qatar joint Hawk training squadron. The unit will utilise the Qatar Emiri Air Force’s (QEAF’s) fleet of nine new BAE Systems Hawk Mk 167 aircraft, which are currently in production. The … Defence Command Paper on March 22 that the entire RAF Hawk T1 fleet will be axed in 2025, would have left Leeming with …

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Hellenic Air Force Rafale

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First six Greek Rafales delivered

… 332 Mira Pantos Kerou (All-Weather Squadron) ‘Geraki’ (Hawk), part of 114 Pteriga Makhis (Combat Wing) at Tanagra. …

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Meet the BBMF's new boss!

… who has previously flown Tornado F3s, instructed on the Hawk T1 and brought the Hawk T2 into service, and has flown the Eurofighter Typhoon …

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Philippines to buy 32 more S-70i Black Hawks

… A further 32 Polish-built Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk combat utility helicopters are to be purchased to … of which arrived on November 8 – see  Philippine Black Hawk deliveries completed , January, p18. That final batch of …

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A day with the Irish Air Corps' Emergency Aeromedical Service

… off strong competition from the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk in a deal worth up to €50m. The first two AW139 entered …

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USAF to start retiring Joint STARS fleet this year

… which currently operates the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial …

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Scaled Composites Stratolaunch: how it works and why it exists

… the length of the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903 Its relevance, however, is more …

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No 12 Squadron: the joint British-Qatari Typhoon training unit

… September 18, 2018, the contract for 24 Typhoons (and nine Hawk Mk 167 jet trainers) became officially effective after … squadron at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, with Qatar’s new Hawk Mk 167 aircraft. The new agreement also saw plans laid …

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RAF retires BAe 146 to IWM Duxford

… a single British-designed and built type, the BAE Systems Hawk T1/T2. … RAF retires BAe 146 to IWM Duxford …

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What happened during Iran's seven-day Zulfiqar-1400 exercise?

… in the main exercise area. One of them, a Modernized I-HAWK, fired one MIM-23B Hawk SAM at a target drone. The others were Mersad-16 and … and upgraded. The USAF also used an RQ-4B Global Hawk and an MQ-9 Reaper to keep an eye on the armed forces. …

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UPDATE: Hawk T1 fleet grounded following Cornwall crash

… Defence (MoD) has confirmed that a British Aerospace (BAe) Hawk T1 jet trainer has crashed during a routine flight from Royal … the Royal Air Force (RAF) has temporarily grounded its Hawk T1 jet trainer fleet, pending the results of an ongoing …

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The Rise of the T-7A Red Hawk

… F404 afterburning turbofan, the Boeing/Saab T-7A Red Hawk is among the world’s highest performing, … legends of the past and the heroes of the future”, while ‘Hawk’ is a reference to the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk the 99th … every bit the futuristic trainer. Now compare the T-7A Red Hawk to the Talon. Is the result of six decades’ engineering …

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Analysis: Europe's fighter fleets

… Hornets based in the Canary Islands under Project Halcón (Hawk) and mentioned Eurofighter in that context. Although an …

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Keeping the Iranian Air Force F-5E/F Tiger II fleet in service

… fire, with F-5E/Fs shot down by the IRIAF’s MIM-23B HAWK SAMs. When the Iran-Iraq war first started, the IRIAF …

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Aviation News January 2022

… TRAINER What to expect from Boeing’s advanced T-7A Red Hawk COMPETITION Win a signed copy of Tim Peake’s …