Soto earns lifetime achievement award for fuzing excellence
November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025
PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, Nov. 17 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release:
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Soto earns lifetime achievement award for fuzing excellence
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Gabriel Soto and his friends built model aircraft in the late 1970s. Military ones. F-4 Phantoms, F-14 Tomcats, F-16 Fighting Falcons. You name it.
They glued extra weapons on them, more bombs, more rockets, until the aircraft carried impossible loads. In bed . . .
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Soto earns lifetime achievement award for fuzing excellence
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Gabriel Soto and his friends built model aircraft in the late 1970s. Military ones. F-4 Phantoms, F-14 Tomcats, F-16 Fighting Falcons. You name it.
They glued extra weapons on them, more bombs, more rockets, until the aircraft carried impossible loads. In bed . . .