Category: Navy

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) is the first aircraft carrier to test the MK 234 Nulka countermeasure on Dec. 16.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Rafael Figueroa Medina [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Spanish government will sell off its former flagship of the Navy, aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias, as scrap. The asking price starts from 4.8 million euros.

By PHC JACK C. BAHM [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A P-8A from VP-16 was in Singapore recently to fly demonstration flights to local military and government officials.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kegan E. Kay [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Foreign Policy that on Aug. 30, 2013, he was close to authorizing a strike against Syria using Tomahawk cruise missiles when President Obama phoned him during dinner time and told him to stand down.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Carmichael Yepez [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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