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Indonesia has agreed to send a Mi-17 detachment to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
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U.S. Army engineers at Picatinny Arsenal has successfully developed a counter rockets, artillery and mortars (C-RAM) weapon using a 50mm version of the Bushmaster cannon.
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The U.S Navy has a huge stockpile of Mar 80 series general purpose bombs with some manufactured as far back as the Vietnam War-era. These bombs have no shelf life and when the service required them for operational use, it relies on a U.S. Army facility to inspect and renovate them.
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Photo Credit: Mr. Thomas Peske (AMC)
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The Pentagon has confirmed that one of the Army’s MQ-1C Grey Eagle was lost in Iraq on Jul. 16.
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Afghan officials say two U.S. helicopters attacked a checkpoint in Logar province on Jul. 20, killing at least eight soldiers that were manning the post.
Photo: Staff Sergeant Mike Harvey/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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