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India’s largest aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, is sailing towards the coast off Gujarat and the ship’s air wing will have to defend the task force from mock attacks carried out by Indian Air Force Jaguars and possibly Su-30MKIs.
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Western defense officials believe North Korea had suffered a severe setback in its KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) program.
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The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted the second successful flight test of the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor at the U.S. Navy’s Point Mugu Sea Range on Dec. 8.
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Russian cruiser Varyag is currently off India’s coast for Exercise Indra with the Indian Navy till Dec. 12. After that, it will set sail for the Mediterranean to replace cruiser Moskva.
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The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing an engineering contract to convert the Super Hornet into a configuration specific to the Blue Angels role.
By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Casey Akins. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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