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A U.S. Air Force HH-60 rescue helicopter assigned to the 66th Rescue Squadron crashed during a training mission at the Nevada Test and Training Range on Aug. 18.
By Staff Sgt. ANDY KIN [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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To be certified for full-rate production, the F-35 be demonstrated that it can be decontaminated from chemical and biological weapons exposure. A group of engineers at Edwards Air Force Base is now about to do that.
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The U.S. Air Force will switch to a new type of fire foam which does not contain perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOS and PFOA.
By Senior Airman Julianne Showalter (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/86602) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Japanese Ministry of Defense has set its sights on obtaining a record $51 billion budget from the government for fiscal 2017.
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By Val Gempis, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Indian Air Force has been given the green light to replace a C-130J that was lost in an accident in March 2014.
By Alan Wilson [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons