Category: Navy

The Royal Navy warship HMS Defender has joined the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Indian Ocean to strengthen the French ship’s ability to conduct air strikes against ISIL, the British government says.

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Anti-submarine Warfare Systems program office (PMA-264) needed a new platform to do quality-assurance testing of sonobuoys after the S-3 was retired in October.

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More details have emerged on an incident involving a Chinese Navy submarine and USS Ronald Regan on Oct. 24. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the submarine carried out a mock attack on the aircraft carrier using anti-ship missiles.

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Testing of a Russian cruise missile went horribly wrong and the weapon deviated from its flight path and hit an apartment block in the northern Arkhangelsk region on Dec. 15.

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