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F-35 For Snow Removal? Multirole Fighter Destroys AF Academy With Avalanche

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Oct 05, 2022
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An experimental Air Force effort to use the F-35 to prevent avalanches at Pike’s Peak has ended in disaster, after an avalanche severely damaged the Air Force Academy and killed hundreds of cadets.

The State of Colorado routinely causes small avalanches to avoid larger ones using World War II howitzers, but the Air Force saw an …

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