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How the Air Force turns a combat-ready F-16 into a high-flying Thunderbirds act

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What do the protagonists of The Princess Diaries, Pretty Woman, Miss Congeniality and Air Force F-16 tail number A91-0470 have in common? Well, they all went through intense makeovers to go from workaday beauties to runway queens, with pretty makeup to boot.  That’s right, F-16 tail number A91-0470, formerly of the U.S. Air Force Weapons …

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Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic

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NAGURSKOYE, Russia (AP) — During the Cold War, Russia‘s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. It was a remote and desolate home mostly for polar bears, where temperatures plunge in winter to minus-42 Celsius (43 degrees below zero Fahrenheit) and …

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Biden Raises Cease-Fire, Civilian Toll in Call to Netanyahu

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President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he stopped short of demanding an immediate stop to the eight days of Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket barrages that have killed more than 200 people, most of them Palestinian. …

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USS Gerald R. Ford Returning to Newport News this Summer for Modernization Work

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When USS Gerald R. Ford ties up at Newport News Shipbuilding’s pier 2 this summer after its full ship shock trials — a test involving blowing up a lot of high explosives next to the Navy’s newest carrier — the aim really isn’t to fix things that might have been shaken loose. Instead, it’ll be …

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