Category: Navy

VP-5 has become the first Boeing P-8A squadron to win the Atlantic Fleet Battle Efficiency (“E”) award. The unit beat five other squadrons to the award.

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A U.S. Navy P-3 maritime patrol aircraft had an unsafe close encounter with a Chinese KJ-200 early warning aircraft near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, CNN reports.

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Three E-2C Hawkeyes assigned to VAW-124 had their engines swapped out just days before they left for a cruise aboard USS George H.W. Bush after it was discovered that the powerplants had been given a wrong type of lubricant.

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A Indian Navy Il-38 SD maritime patrol aircraft successfully fired a Kh-35 anti-ship missile (ASM) during exercise TROPEX-17.

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