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F-35 Pilots Dress For Chemical and Biological Warfare
« on: September 26, 2017, 08:54:01 pm »
By TYLER ROGOWAY

It has taken testers and industry a decade to come up with a flight suit configuration that can keep F-35 pilots alive in biological and chemical warfare environments, and just last week the ensemble flew for the first time. In a press release, the USAF detailed the different pieces of the modified getup:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7436/f-35-pilots-dress-for-chemical-and-biological-warfare-for-the-first-time
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