At $39,000, this C-130-styled handbag costs half the salary of an actual Air Force pilot

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Aviators, maintainers, aircrew, answer me this: How is your wardrobe these days? Sure, the Air Force now allows maintainers to wear shorts on the flight line, but do you ever feel like your outfits are missing something? Have no fear, because Louis Vuitton is here with a vaguely C-130 Hercules-shaped handbag which, at $39,000 a …

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Drone-Ception: Valkyrie Drone Launches Mini-Drone in New Air Force Test

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The Air Force just demonstrated the ability to launch a drone from another drone, a step forward in complex aerial warfare without a human pilot. The XQ-58A Valkyrie successfully released a small unmanned aerial vehicle from its internal weapons bay at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona on March 26, according to a service release. …

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Tests to Fix Big Design Flaw Plaguing Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships Will Start Soon

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After new deliveries of the Navy’s littoral combat ships were halted in January over a serious design flaw, testing will begin this month to fix the problem, the Navy’s top admiral said. Tests to fix problems with the Freedom-class littoral combat ships’ combining gear will take place ashore, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday …

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Here’s the military record of the Navy corpsman allegedly behind the shooting at Fort Detrick

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The hospital corpsman who was killed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, on Tuesday after he allegedly shot two other sailors near the base had an unremarkable career in the Navy, according to his military record. Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, originally from Virginia, enlisted in the Navy in September 2012 and had served as a petty officer third …

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