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In the 1950s and 60s, few defense manufacturers were involved with vertical or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) platforms. The Bell XV-3 tilt rotor and the Doak VZ-4, with its two tilting ducted fans, were two of the first. But it was the U.S. military’s ambitious tilt-wing assault transport, the LTV XC-142A, that promised helicopter-style vertical lift with turboprop speed.
In 1959, the U.S.

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Soon, Army counterintelligence officials expect to have new authorities to search, execute warrants and make arrests off-post for national security or terrorism investigations.
The new law “allows all Army civilian [counterintelligence] agents to conduct searches, to execute warrants and to make arrests off of the installation, because that’s where the majority of our people live today,” Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., last week.

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US forces Iraq 2007Image by Yan-J

Iraq ’s prime minister said Monday that a small contingent of U.S. military advisers will remain in the country for now to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria combating the Islamic State group.
Washington and Baghdad agreed last year to wind down a U.S.-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq by this September, with U.S. forces departing some bases where they have been stationed.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told journalists in Baghdad that U.S.

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What hits an airliner in the windscreen at 36,000 feet?

“A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the plane’s windscreen shattered.
Flight 1093 had taken off from Denver, Colorado, and was headed to Los Angeles, California, when a layer of the cockpit’s main window cracked on Thursday.
The plane was about 200 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, at roughly 36,000 feet in the air, when the crew noticed something strike the windshield, Air Live reported.

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