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Royal Navy Lynx farewell flypast
The Royal Navy is retiring its Lynx naval helicopter this month and the rotorcraft will be making two flypasts on Mar. 17.
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Italian Eurofighters heading to Iceland
The Italian Air Force will dispatch six of its Eurofighters to Iceland from Mar. 16 to mid-April for the Icelandic Air Policing mission.
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By Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (Eurofighter Typhoon – RIAT 2013) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Pilot of RA-85572 had full control of aircraft before crashing
Russian media reported that the pilot flying a Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 that crashed into the Black Sea on Dec. 25, 2016 had put the jet into a controlled descent shortly after take-off.
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JMSDF, ROKN, USN destroyers in missile defense informational link exercise
The U.S. 7th Fleet announced today that destroyers USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG- 991), and JS Kirishima (DDG-174) are operating in waters east of the Korean peninsula and north of Japan for a trilateral missile warning informational link exercise (LINKEX).
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By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Michael Feddersen [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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