A cargo plane chartered by the French Army crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast’s Abidjan on Oct. 14.
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USS Monterey making unscheduled deployment to fix BMD woes in Pacific
USS Monterey, a guided-missile cruiser, is making an unscheduled deployment on Oct. 16 to the 5th and 6th Fleet areas so that USS O’Kane can be deployed to the 7th Fleet.
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By MC3 Billy Ho [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Out of control Chinese space station crashing back to Earth
The Chinese authorities has informed the United Nations that its Tiangong-1 space station will soon de-orbit and crash back to Earth.
By: Craigboyderivative work: Jon C (Tiangong_1_drawing.png) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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Israel pauses evaluation of V-22
Flight Global reports that Israel has put a stop to its evaluation of the V-22 tiltrotor.
By Peter Gronemann (Flickr: V22-Osprey) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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F-35A arrives at Eielson AFB for drag-chute testing
Royal Norwegian Air Force test pilot, Major “Taz” Amdal, flew a modified F-35A to Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska on Oct. 12 for the next phase testing of the type’s drag chute.
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U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Eric M. Fisher
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