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A PAE maintainer directs an unmanned QF-4 down the drone runway for takeoff May 12 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. This QF-4 was used as a full-scale target and shot down
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The US Air Force is looking for new aerial targets to 'replicate' threats from Russia's and China's best fighter jets
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