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A Mexican Navy Mi-17 helicopter has crash while helping to fight a forest fire. 
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Jeremy L. Grisham [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The mayor of Abu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has petitioned the central government to scrap its plan to deploy the Aegis Ashore system in the Prefecture.
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Kauai, Hawaii, successfully conducted Flight Test Integrated-03 (FTI-03).
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A Philippine Air Force OV-10 tail number 402 has crashed on May 24.
Philippine Air Force – 15th Strike Wing, 16th Attack Squadron [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Black Crow was an magnetic anomaly detection system aboard the AC-130A that allows the crew to detect vehicles hidden underneath the jungle canopy by detecting their electromagnetic emissions from the engine’s ignition coil.
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