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America’s Most Expensive Fighter Jet Totaled in First-Ever Crash
The F-35, the U.S. military’s most expensive fighter jet, crashed for the first time on Friday, just hours after a U.S.-flown F-35 carried out its first-ever combat strike in Afghanistan.
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US military grounds all F-35 jets
The US military has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets in the wake of a crash in South Carolina last month. Inspections are to be carried out on faulty fuel tubes. An official report questioned earlier this year whether the F-35 was ready for combat after dozens of faults were found. The F-35 is the largest and most expensive weapons programme of its type in the world.
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C-17 flying between buildings !
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Air Force launches $100K challenge for ‘space awareness innovators’
Air Force: “The need for timely and accurate object tracking is paramount to the defense of space."
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‘Skyborg’ could let F-35 and F-15 fighter jets control their own companion drones
The US Air Force hopes that the XQ58-A Valkyrie drone wingman might someday accompany the F-35 and a new version of the F-15 fighter jet, according to Defense News. The aircraft is designed to fill a role known as “loyal wingman” — imagined as a low-cost platform that would be controlled by a parent aircraft to accomplish a variety of tasks, such as flying ahead to scout out terrain, or absorb enemy fire in the event that they’re attacked.
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‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects
The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.
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Who has the hottest stealth drones and hypersonic missiles? Not the U.S.
The celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at the beginning of this month promised plenty of pomp and power projection. In the days leading up to the grandiose parade through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Chinese citizens began sharing photos of tarp-covered vehicles and missiles being rolled into Beijing for a rehearsal.
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This Is How The Air Force Gets Its New Survival Rifle To Fit Under An Ejection Seat
The U.S. Air Force has offered the first good look at how its new-ish GAU-5/A carbines squeeze in with other items inside a survival kit that the service's pilots are now flying with under their ejection seats. The guns are converted standard M4 carbines with various new features, most notably a special locking system that allows users to break it down into two halves in 30 seconds or less and reassemble when necessary just as fast.
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Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena"
"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,'" a spokeswoman said.
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Spanish pilots fly to fight in Lithuania
On May the 1st the Spanish Air Force is to take over the lead of Baltic Air Policing, which is NATO’s mission safeguarding the airspace over the Baltic Allies Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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After nearly 110 years of naval aviation, the US Navy has welcomed its first Black female tactical jet pilot
Soaring through the glass ceilings of both her gender and race, Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle has made history as the US Navy's first Black female tactical aircraft pilot. "BZ to Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle on completing the Tactical Air (Strike) aviator syllabus," the Chief of Naval Air Training wrote Thursday on Facebook, using the abbreviation BZ for Bravo Zulu, which means "well done."
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What to know before your first military move
Whether you've just been deployed, just shipping out, or just getting involved in the military, your first PCS or military relocation can be a bit unnerving and stressful. Trying to understand everything about the situation can be overwhelming but with a little preparation and organization, you can be ready to move on to the next season of life. Here are five things to know about military relocations, specifically to the Hampton Roads area.
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The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
The U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of aging F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticated F-35 stealth fighters. But an affordable, lightweight fighter is exactly what the F-35 was first conceived to be.
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Newly Uncovered NASA Reports Reveal Pilot Encounters with UFOs
FROM 3,500 FEET, the clear August afternoon offered an exceptional view of New York’s Catskill Mountains. The light breeze over Greene County had been ideal for an afternoon flight, and one private pilot operating a small sailplane over East Windham had decided to take full advantage of it.
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
On May 9, 2001, Steven M. Greer took the lectern at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of the truth about unidentified flying objects. Greer, an emergency-room physician in Virginia and an outspoken ufologist, believed that the government had long withheld from the American people its familiarity with alien visitations.
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What we know about UFOs: How the Pentagon has handled reported sightings, mysterious videos and more
For years, the US government largely ignored reports of mysterious flying objects seen moving through restricted military airspace but it is now slowly beginning to acknowledge that UFOs, which the Pentagon refers to as unidentified aerial phenomena, are real.
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Tomorrow's 'Top Gun' might have drone wingman, use AI
Maverick’s next wingman could be a drone. In the movies, fighter pilots are depicted as highly trained military aviators with the skills and experience to defeat adversaries in thrilling aerial dogfights.
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