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Usually, it takes up to 48 hours for a Expeditionary Fighter Squadron to generate combat air power after arriving at the deployment location. The 134th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron’s recent deployment to Southwest Asia only took 15 hours.
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The U.S. government has given the green light to sell five Boeing P-8A maritime patrol aircraft to Norway.
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua Hammond [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Serbia’s Defense Minister Zoran Djordjevic said Moscow will be selling six MiG-29s to his country and these jets will be arriving within three months.
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By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (IMG_0637) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Three French policemen were invited to tour USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during the aircraft carrier’s port visit in Marseille. However, the trio were forgotten by their guides and left aboard the ship when it departed.
By Petty Officer 2nd Class Rafael Figueroa-Medina (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/110867) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Ukraine has lamented that the 72 RQ-11B mini-unmanned aerial vehicles supplied by the United States are ineffective against Russian-back separatists who are good at jamming and hacking the drones’ video and data feed.
U.S. Army [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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