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AV-8B BuNo. 165588 have several bullet holes in its fuselage when it arrived at Fleet Readiness Center East at Cherry Point three years ago after the deadly Taliban raid on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.
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The U.S. Air Force’s HH-60G Pave Hawk is switching out its GAU-18 machine gun for the GAU-21. A HH-60G is now at Edwards Air Force Base for the 412th Test Wing and 418th Flight Test Squadron to verify the ballistics qualities of the new machine gun on the Pave Hawk.
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The last pair of U.S. Navy S-3 Vikings took to the air for the final Navy flight at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California, on Jan. 11.
Serbia is keen to purchase the S-300 air defense system from Russia but is put off by the price. Visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic that Moscow will look into Serbia’s request.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/384) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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