U.S. military: No copter has gone down
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The U.S. military said Sunday it has no reports of a helicopter going down after witnesses reported an Apache had crashed north of Baghdad.
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Once derided as a white elephant, the U.S. Marine Corps' tilt-rotor aircraft, the V-22 Osprey, is proving its mettle in Iraq, military officials say. The planes have been used in rescue missions, and the Osprey seems to have become a favorite of commanders who need to get to places quickly, including Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.
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The military's reliance on unmanned aircraft that can watch, hunt and sometimes kill insurgents has soared to more than 500,000 hours in the air, largely in Iraq
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A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed in flames Wednesday in a field northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S. military said. It was the sixth U.S. aircraft reported lost in less than three weeks and the latest sign of growing problems with aviation in Iraq.
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NASA managers said the craft showed no sign of damage after the appearance of mysterious debris caused concern.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The main US base in Afghanistan fell silent yesterday at the moment the first hijacked jetliner struck the World Trade Center. Soldiers bowed their heads in prayer.
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The U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet said two F/A-18 fighter aircraft crashed during operations in the Gulf on Monday, but there were no fatalities.
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A transport helicopter that crashed in Iraq last week killing all seven on board was brought down by a "sophisticated piece of weaponry", the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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It was a mistake, the Air Force says -- and the public was never in danger. But nevertheless, a B-52 armed with six nuclear warheads flew for more than three hours last week across several states. They meant to take the warheads off the missiles before they mounted them under the wings, but somebody goofed. A commander is fired over the incident.
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The United States Air Forces celebrates its 60th anniversary
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A US military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in foggy weather in central Texas on Monday and there was no information available about injuries or deaths for the seven people on board, a military spokeswoman said.
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A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety.
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A Marine helicopter that crashed last week near Baghdad was actually shot down. Are the insurgents using better antiaircraft technology? The U.S. says no. By the Associated Press.
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The U.S. military does not  anticipate trying to shoot apart a defunct spy satellite on  Wednesday due to rough seas in the Pacific Ocean, a senior  military official said.
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A top U.S. general said Wednesday there was severe weather at the site of a U.S. Marine helicopter crash in of western Iraq and that he had no reports of enemy fire in the area. President Bush expressed sorrow at the loss of life and said he knew Americans would find the new deaths discouraging.
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The military shows its love for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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The Pentagon no longer needs to  hamper the entire Global Positioning System when facing a  threat in one part of the world and will stop buying satellites  that enable it do so, the military said on Tuesday.