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As you know, the RCAF Association delivers RCAF Association News direct to your inbox each Friday, briefing you on the latest industry news that impacts your practice. But we know you are busy and may have missed an important article or two. To that end, here's your monthly recap of the top five stories your peers accessed last month. For more articles, or to see what's trending now, visit the RCAF Association News portal. To unsubscribe from this monthly recap, click here.
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Government of Canada
Seventy-one personnel from 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario, including members of 436 Transport Squadron, recently travelled to Little Rock, Arkansas, and Alexandria, Louisiana, to take part in Exercise Green Flag Little Rock (GFLR) 17-04.
Hosted by the United States Air Force's 34th Combat Training Squadron, the exercise involved approximately 4,300 personnel from six USAF bases, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marine Corps, the British Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force in a scenario-based, highly dynamic coalition event.
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Government of Canada
It was recently International's Women's Day. In the weeks leading up the International Women in Aviation Conference in June, we will feature weekly interviews with female leaders in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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CBC News
The losing bidder in the race to replace Canada's fixed-wing search and rescue fleet is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out the multibillion-dollar contract, CBC News has learned.
Leonardo S.p.A., which offered its C-27J transport for the competition, filed notice of legal action in January, but only delivered supporting arguments and affidavits to the court this last week. The company is challenging the Liberal government's decision last fall to buy 16 new C-295W transports manufactured by rival Airbus Defence and Space.
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The National Interest
While China has long been concerned enough about the Joint Strike Fighter Program's capabilities to have plundered its plans in cyber files in the hope of reverse engineering it, critics in Australia have created the broad impression that the aircraft, now officially named the F-35 Lightning ll, is a "dog." That criticism was loud enough to trigger a parliamentary inquiry into whether the RAAF should buy the JSF.
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The Washington Post
The U.S. Air Force, faced with a potentially protracted war against the Islamic State, aging fighter jets and a shrinking force of pilots, is examining the adoption of a new fleet of "light-attack" planes that are both a throwback to earlier U.S. operations and a current staple of militaries in South America and the Middle East.
The aircraft would be able to carry out airstrikes against the Islamic State and other militants for less money than the F-16 Fighting Falcon or the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
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