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Four people aboard a Russian Army Mi-8 helicopter were killed when the rotor-craft went down in Pskov region northwest of Moscow on Feb. 8.
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By Rob Schleiffert from Holland (Mi-8 Stargard) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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The fiscal 2017 defense budget has an item to upgrade an aircraft hangar at the former Naval Air Station Keflavik in order to support future P-8A missions out of Iceland.
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles E. White [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Pakistan Army Aviation MFI-17 Mushshak crashed on Feb. 9, killing two on board the aircraft. The aircraft was on a training mission when it went down near Gujranwala.
By Sergey Ryabtsev [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
South Korea’s Ambassador to Beijing, Kim Jang-soo, was summoned by China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin on Feb. 7 to protest Seoul’s decision to start talks with Washington over the deployment of a THAAD unit in South Korea.
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The Pentagon has decided to disband Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14), which is based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, in October.
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