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 by Staff Writers Tehran (AFP) Aug 26, 2018
An Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashed in southern Iran on Sunday killing its pilot, state media reported. The jet, a training aircraft, crashed as it attempted to land in Dezful in the southwestern Khuzestan province, the official IRNA news agency said. Its pilot was killed but his co-pilot survived and was hospitalised. The cause of the accident was unknown. Iran bought its F-5 fighters from the United States before the 1979 Islamic revolution and still has 48 in service, according to the latest estimates by Jane's IHS Markit. Last week, Tehran unveiled its first domestically built fighter jet, which is closely modelled on the F-5.
Pentagon announces flight tests of new decoy plane Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 The US military has successfully tested a new generation of flying decoy that tricks an enemy's air defenses into thinking it is a US or allied aircraft, the Pentagon said Thursday. Known by its acronym MALD-X, the Miniature Air Launch Decoy confuses enemy air defenses by duplicating friendly aircraft flight profiles and radar signatures, according to manufacturers Raytheon, who in 2016 won a $34.8 million contract to develop the technology. In a statement, the Pentagon said developers successf ... read more
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