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India’s Minister of State for Defense Rao Inderjit Singh says the indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant will be handed over to the Indian Navy in December 2018.
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French President Francois Hollande visits aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on Dec. 4 and he revealed that warship will move into the Persian Gulf in a “few days.”
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The U.S. Navy is sharing lessons learn from the deployment of an operational laser weapon system on USS Ponce with the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).
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The U.S. Department of Defense could reduce the number of F-35 stealth fighters is plans to buy in the fiscal 2017 budget plan due to spending caps imposed by Congress.
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At a panel presentation at the America Society of Naval Engineers’ Combat Systems Symposium on Dec. 1, U.S. Navy officials share with attendees how the sailing branch is giving old defense weapons a new life by giving them an offensive capability.
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