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Air Force Uses Falcons To Protect Falcons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the april-already dept.

coondoggie writes "Birds and high-performance jet aircraft don't mix. So at a base in Germany, the Air Force is fighting birds with birds — specifically trained falcons that patrol the base and help eliminate at least some of the feathered threat to the F-16 Fighting Falcons and other aircraft."

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  1. Re:Falcons & falcons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes, in point of fact, they are wrong. It's used because of newspaper precedents.

    Cue "language is what we make of it" posts.