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Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said his country will unveil a new domestically manufactured maritime patrol aircraft and launch a biological capsule into space in the near future.
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Statistics released by the Mexican government show that local drug gangs have attacked military and government helicopters 28 times over the last five years.
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An aircrew assigned to Patrol Squadron 47, operating from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, saved 68 people during an 11-hour mission.
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Pentagon testers found that the reliability rates for the V-22 has improved in 2011 but it was at 53 percent rather than the specified 82 percent.
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The U.S. Navy wants Huntington Ingalls Industries to drive down the cost of building CVN-78.
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