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The head of U.S. Air Force Space Command, Gen. John Hyten, said he supports a proposal to let decommissioned Peacekeeper ICBMs be recycled as launch vehicles for commercial satellites.
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The U.S. Navy has awarded $22 million to BAE Systems for the production of Archerfish mine neutralisers.
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The Indian Air Force will induct a second C-130J squadron, No 87, at Air Force Station Arjan Singh in Panagarh on May 5.
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A USAF C-130J, #08-3174, crashed in Afghanistan on Oct. 2, 2015 killing 11 people on board and three Afghan soldiers on the ground. An investigation by Air Mobility Command concluded that the mishap pilot had place a hard shell night vision goggle (NVG) case in front of the yoke during offloading of cargo and forgot to remove it during take-off.
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Discovery Air Defence Services Inc. announced that it recently supported the first-ever Luftwaffe Eurofighter Fighter Weapons Instructor Course (FWIC).
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