Aviation News
CBS’s David Martin was given access to USAFCENT’s command center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar where the television crew was able to film Dutch F-16s and a B-1 bomber hit a ISIL car-bomb factory in Iraq.
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The 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron carried out its first flightline weapons load on the F-35A at Eglin Air Force Base on Oct. 16.
U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Andrea Posey
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A naturalized U.S. citizen has been charged in South Florida for trying to help China procure a MQ-9 and fighter jet engines.
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An Italian Navy AV-8B flew back to its home base from USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) after spending three years in the United States for maintenance.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Ryre Arciaga
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The U.S. government has declassified the Soviet “War Scare” report on the 1983 War Scare. New information revealed that retired Lt. Gen. Leonard Perroots, then assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Air Forces Europe, had acted out of his own instincts to stop the escalation of the crisis.
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