June
2012 Air Force Military Aviation Defence Industry News
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Lockheed
Martin Provides Italian Ministry of Defence with Airborne Multi-INT Laboratory
aircraft
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An innovative Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML) developed
by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (ISR) is now being used by the Italian Air
Force in a live operational environment.
Russia's
Military Transport Aviation to buy 60 Antonov An-70 propfan tactical transport
aircraft
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Russia's Military Transport Aviation (VTA) is to receive 60 Antonov
An-70 propfan tactical transport aircraft by 2020, the service's
commander Lt. Gen. Viktor Kachalkin said on Thursday, May 31,
2012. "From 2014, we will start to get the Ilyushin Il-76-MD90A
(Il-476) and also the modernized Il-76MD. We are also counting
on getting the new An-70," he said.