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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force, a high-tech wonder of precision missiles and pilotless surveillance drones, is looking for a few good falcons.
U.S. aircraft at the sprawling Bagram air base in Afghanistan are coming under increasing attack from “many small songbirds, pigeons, Magpies, Hawks and Black Kites,” according to a bid request for “bird control services” issued last month.
Personnel have tried “bangers and screamers” — rockets that can travel hundreds of yards as they give off a siren-like noise, followed by a loud bang.
There were more than 100 bird strikes against aircraft taking off, landing or taxiing at Bagram from January to August.
