June 05, 2011 Military Aviation News
06/05/2011
Capabilities gained from a decade of combat have transformed military reserve components into a full-spectrum operational force that should be integrated into the active fighting force, a defense official said June 3.
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06/05/2011
he military aircraft that have made emergency landings in Malta were refuelled by Enemalta and the countries which own them are responsible to pay for the fuel purchased, a finance ministry spokesman has told The Malta Independent.
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06/05/2011
He has become known to many Canadians as an outspoken defender of veterans’ rights. But in 2002, Lt.-Col. Pat Stogran was doing very different work. He and 1,000 soldiers from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry landed at Kandahar Airfield to team up with 2,000 paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division in the manhunt for Osama bin Laden and his Arab, Afghan and Pakistani allie.
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06/05/2011
Air strikes by British combat helicopters have been carried out for the first time in Libya, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. Two targets near the Libyan town of Brega were hit by Army Apaches overnight in the latest Nato assault against forces loyal to Colonel Mummar Gaddafi.
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06/05/2011
NATO's actions in Libya are gradually evolving into a land operation, Russia's foreign minister warned on Saturday. The French armed forces website said on Saturday that British and French light aviation helicopters of the ground forces had delivered pinpoint strikes at Libya on Friday night as part of NATO's military operation.
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