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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 U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to send an unmanned aircraft into the stratosphere sometime in 2020-2021 and attempt to shot down a ballistic missile in its boost-phase using an electrical laser. Lockheed Martin says a unmanned version of the U-2 might be a suitable platform for that.
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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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The new SM-3 Block 2A interceptor, jointly develop by the United States and Japan, will face its first intercept test this October.
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