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Crashed Iranian helicopter was US-made and may be so old it predates the 1979 Islamic Revolution
The helicopter that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in when it crashed was a US-made Bell 212 t…
Thibault Spirlet
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Former Iranian official partly blames US sanctions for the helicopter crash that killed its president
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran on Sunday. He was trav…
Mikhaila Friel
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A Chinese fighter jet popped flares in the path of an Australian military helicopter in an 'unsafe' Yellow Sea intercept, Canberra says
A Chinese aircraft released flares in the flight path of an Australian Defence Force helicopter, es…
Ella Sherman
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Boeing isn't bringing any passenger jets to the Singapore Airshow as China's first airliner makes its international debut
Boeing's troubles following the 737 Max blowout could present an opportunity for China's first home…
Pete Syme
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Despite a few high-profile incidents, helicopters are generally safe to fly - as long as proper safety procedures are followed
Shayanne Gal/Business Insider According to the US Helicopter Safety Team, accident rates i…
David Slotnick
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An Alaska helicopter tour company says it's seen a 250% surge in business compared to 2019 as an influx of tourists travel to the state
Alaska Helicopter Tours is no stranger to the labor shortage, and its biggest hurdle during the tra…
Taylor Rains
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Biden's first flight on the $217 million presidential helicopter was pushed back after the Pentagon deemed it unreliable in an emergency: report
The helicopter, part of a $5 billion 23-aircraft program, was supposed to be declared ready for ope…
Kate Duffy
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How riding rockets going 4,000 mph into suborbital space could slash international flight times from 22 hours to 2
Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are exploring the possibility of using rockets t…
Kelly Burch
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A fire captain went rogue to photograph Kobe Bryant helicopter crash site, a high-ranking fire chief testified
LACFD chief Anthony Marrone said he never ordered his staff to take photos of remains after Kobe Br…
Azmi Haroun
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Helicopters are evacuating staff from the US embassy in Kabul as the Taliban enter the Afghan capital 'from all sides'
Helicopters are transporting US officials from the embassy, as Taliban militants enter the outskirt…
Tom Porter
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The toughest US Army Special Forces course takes place underwater. Here's why it has to be brutal.
The Combat Diver Qualification Course is a tough test of participants' diving know-how and ability …
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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How the US defused a deadly showdown between 2 NATO allies' special-operations forces
The showdown between Greece and Turkey was resolved peacefully, but threats of war were "not a bluf…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The final scramble out of Kabul required skills only commandos have, special-ops veterans say
US and coalition special-operations units were key to evacuations from Afghanistan, going outside t…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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India is updating its air force for a modern war, and China isn't its only concern
India's efforts to expand and modernize its air force show how serious it is about countering the t…
Benjamin Brimelow
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'We betrayed them': A marine has spent 5 years trying to get his Afghan interpreter to the US. A visa is still nowhere in sight.
Marine Corps Maj. Thomas Schueman said his interpreter, Zak, was only able to leave Afghanistan bec…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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VIDEO: Here's what US troops saw when thousands of Afghans flooded the airport in Kabul desperately looking for a way out
The video offers a view of just how many people poured into Hamid Karzai International Airport tryi…
Ryan Pickrell
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Vietnamese refugees who came to the US after the fall of Saigon share their stories to show how crucial it is for Afghan families to get the same chance
For Vietnamese refugees, watching the chaos in Afghanistan this week brought back painful memories …
Kristie-Valerie Hoang
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The US military is still trying to clear crowds off Kabul airport's runway, where evacuation flights were halted amid 'troubling' incidents
The Pentagon press secretary called videos of people desperately clinging to airlift planes "troubl…
Ryan Pickrell,Christopher Woo…
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New US Navy supercarrier withstood the shock of multiple 40,000-pound bomb blasts, but some things did break, captain says
"We did break things, but we will fix them," Capt. Paul Lanzilotta, the USS Gerald R. Ford's comman…
Ryan Pickrell
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The weird armored vehicle that the US Army hated, the Marines loved, and enemies feared
The Army rejected the M50 Ontos outright, but the Marines embraced it, putting it on the frontlines…