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The Indian Navy is planning to build six conventional diesel-electric submarines that can carry at least 12 Land Attack Cruise Missiles (LACM) each.
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Indian Navy [GODL-India], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. Marine Corps is on schedule to deploy a F-35C squadron aboard an aircraft carrier and will accelerate the purchase of F-35Cs in order to ensure that units earmarked to receive the carrier-borne variant meet their planned transition and deployment deadlines.
USMC employee from VMFA-314 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Boeing has engaged NATO in exploratory talks to plug a gap in the alliance’s maritime surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with the P-8A.
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Trevor Hannant [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs told a think tank recently that the Pentagon is in talks with Vietnam to send an aircraft carrier to the country this year.
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Retired Lt Cdr Doug Taylor of the Royal Navy has passed away recently. Taylor is credited as comping up with the idea of the Ski Jump for assisting jets to take off from aircraft carriers.
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PH3 (AC) Stephen L. Batiz, USN [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons