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First RQ-4 Block 40 combat deployment

Grand Forks Air Force Base announced that the RQ-4 Block 40 has deployed to a war zone on Sept. 19, 2013.

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Col. Paul Tibbets IV, U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command deputy director of operations, was certified to fly the B-52H recently.
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The RAF’s Hawk T2 marked its 10000th flying hour at RAF Valley on Nov. 18.

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The Lijian stealth UAV from Hongdu has made its first flight on Nov. 21 at 13:00 local time. The flight was 20 minutes.

The U.S. Air Force has dropped a plan to buy a “universal payload adapter” to attach sensors from the U-2 to the RQ-4.

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