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  1. The final F-35 Lightning II flight test aircraft, a carrier variant designated CF-3, launches from Naval Air Station (NAS) Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base on May 21 on the way to completing its first test flight.
  2. NATO warplanes bombarded targets in Tripoli with more than 20 airstrikes early Tuesday, striking around Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's residential compound in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital
  3. Iran’s military received a new ballistic missile system, which it said demonstrated the country’s self-sufficiency in mass producing weaponry.
  4. Saudi Arabia has pledged $4 billion in aid to Egypt, the Chief of Egypt's ruling Military Council said this past week.
  5. Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), a leading provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, posted net income of $38.8 million (Dh 142.6 million) for the year 2010, compared to $4.8 million (Dh 17.6 million) for 2009.
  6. British operations in Iraq are officially ending, more than 8 years after the country joined the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
  7. France is deploying attack helicopters in Libya, the first to be used in the allied offensive against forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, French media reported today.
  8. Three firings, three hits! This is the impressive score of the test firing exercise conducted with the PARS 3 LR guided antitank missile system.
  9. Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, recently delivered the Weapon Bay Doors & Mechanism for nEUROn (the new-generation technology demonstrator for a European Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle - UCAV) to Dassault Aviation.
  10. Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) has been selected by Russian Helicopters, JSC to provide the main rotor actuator and hydraulic power supply for its upgraded Mi-34C1 light helicopter.
 



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