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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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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JMSDF plans to send JS Izumo to Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka
Reuters says Tokyo intends to send its helicopter carrier JS Izumo to ports in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka over a period of three months.
By Kaijō Jieitai （海上自衛隊 / Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force） (http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/jmp/201612.html) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Time-lapse video showing ex-USS Independence leaving Bremerton for scrap yard
The former USS Independence left Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on Mar. 11 for its final journey to a shipyard in Texas where it will be broken up.
Antey-class cruise missile submarines to be rearmed with Kalibr cruise missiles
Russia intends to swap out the Granit cruise missiles aboard its Antey-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines with the latest Kalibr cruise missile.
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