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White House Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco announced during a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on Mar. 7 that the statistics on number of people killed by U.S. drone strikes will become public.
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Boeing has been shortlisted by the New Zealand Defence Force to upgrade the submarine detection capability on the P-3K2.
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Lockheed Martin told reporters that its next iteration of the electro-optical targeting system (EOTS) for the F-35 will be ready for testing on the company’s Sabreliner test aircraft this year.
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Hungary and Sweden celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gripen operations for the Hungarian Air Force on Mar. 4 at MH 59, Szentgyörgyi Dezső Airbase, Kecskemét.
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The U.S. Air Force has set up a webpage to gather names for the new B-21 Long Range Strike-Bomber. Unfortunately, only “members of the US Air Force active duty force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, and their dependents, members of the US Air Force Civil Service and US Air Force retirees” are allowed to participate.
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