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  1. Bombardier Aerospace announced that Smart Aviation Company of Cairo, Egypt has signed a firm order to acquire two Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft, and has also taken options on an additional three Q400 NextGen aircraft.
  2. Lockheed Martin's multi-purpose AGM 114R HELLFIRE II missile struck and destroyed a stationary tank target in its third proof-of-principle flight test, a ground-launch test configured to simulate launch from an unmanned aerial system (UAS).
  3. Saudi Arabia will raise wages for most of its army staff, a move that follows a surge in inflation and the Kingdom's first military engagement in almost 20 years against rebels in Yemen.
  4. Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) General Manager Abdulrahman Jawahery has been elected member of the US National Safety Council (NSC) Board of Directors.
  5. The European Union signed a 2.5 million euro ($3.2 million) agreement with Iraq to help Iraqi scientists dismantle, decommission and decontaminate nuclear facilities built under Saddam Hussein.
  6.     Egyptair received its first Airbus A330-300 aircraft from Airbus’ facility in Toulouse, France. Powered by Rolls Royce Trent 700 engines, the aircraft seats 301 passengers with 265 in Economy Class, and 36 in Business Class.
  7. Four Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessels (MCMVs) departed Bahrain recently for a ten-day exercise with their counterparts from the US Navy in the Gulf.
  8. Eurocopter signed a cooperation agreement with China’s Tongji University that integrates this Shanghai-based educational institute into the company’s family of partner universities, with the goal of training future technicians and engineers in...
 



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