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Day: March 27, 2021

20 PLA warplanes enter Taiwan ADIZ after Taipei signs Coast Guard MOU in Washington

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China sent twenty of its military aircraft into Taiwan’s ADIZ on Mar. 26 after the United States and Taiwan signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Coast Guard Working Group (CGWG) in Washington D.C. a day earlier.


Photo: U.S. State Department
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Amazing photos of F-35B testing aboard ITS Cavour

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 15, 2021) A U.S. F-35B Lightning II aircraft takes off from the ski jump of the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550) March 15, 2021, in the Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft, loaded with inert weapons, was conducting flight test to expand the safe flying envelope with external stores during sea trials for the fifth generation fighter aircraft and the upgraded Italian Navy flagship. Cavour just completed phase one of its two-phase Ready for Operations campaign. U.S. Navy photo by Dane Wiedmann

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