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The Sunday Times says the British government has decided that acquiring a fleet of Boeing P-8A maritime patrol aircraft will be “fiendishly expensive.”
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By U.S Navy photo by Personnel Specialist 1st Class Anthony Petry [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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This photo of a JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) won a prize in the PLA photo competition. It is the clearest image of the nuclear-tipped intercontinental-range missile so far.
China has published photos of People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF) J-11BH/BHS fighters deployed to Woody Island in the Parcel archipelago in South China Sea.
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Two Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft buzzed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan at 500 ft in the Sea of Japan this week.
By Photographer’s Name: UNKNOWN (DefenseImagery.mil – DN-SC-87-03779) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. government has approved the potential sale of 16 Evolved Seasparrow Missiles (ESSM) to Thailand. The FMS request is for 14 tactical missiles and two telemetry missiles.
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Photo: Royal Thai Navy