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Two Russian lawmakers asked Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to deploy the country’s sole aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to the Mediterranean to assist in the current military operation in Syria.
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A high-level team from Dassault will visit India this month to brief the Indian Navy on the carrier-borne Rafale M. The move comes as India prepares to finalize the design of its second indigenous aircraft carrier.
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India’s newest aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya will berth at the port of Colombo, Sri Lanka today. This is the warship’s first overseas port call since its induction in 2014.
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The new Mina Salman Support Facility in Bahrain will not allow the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier to berth due to draught constraints.
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The Pentagon has given Pratt & Whitney two contracts to build 167 F135 engines to power the F-35. The ninth batch will produce 66 engines while the last contract is for 101 power plants.
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