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Fifty years ago on this day, two North Korean Air Force MiG-21s intercepted a U.S. Navy EC-121M intelligence gathering aircraft and shot it down.
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Vice Adm. Robert Empedrad from the Philippine Navy is leading a team in the United Kingdom for pre-delivery inspection of the two AW159s the South East Asia nation has ordered.
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Adm. William Francis Moran, who started his career in the U.S. Navy as a P-3 pilot, has been nominated by the Trump administration to be the next chief of naval operations.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has given Northrop Grumman a $3.169 billion multi-year fixed-price-incentive-firm contract for 24 E-2D early warning aircraft. The aerospace company said in its press release that the contract includes “an option for nine additional foreign military sales aircraft.”
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NATO has announced that the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system in Romania is getting upgrades and will be offline during the process. A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will be deployed to Deveselu Base as a stopgap measure.
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