A high-level delegation from Egypt is in Paris to discuss the purchase of Mistral helicopter carriers and two Gowind-class corvettes.
By Ludovic Péron (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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RAND: China has rapidly improved its ability to reliably locate and to attack U.S. CSGs
A new research by RAND concluded that “China has rapidly improved its ability to reliably locate and to attack U.S. carrier-strike groups at distances of up to 2,000 km from its coast.”
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Kenneth R. Hendrix/Released (http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=69601) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Russia has started removing its equipment from Mistral carriers
Russian specialists have arrived in France to supervise French workers removing Russia military equipment installed on Mistral helicopter carriers – Vladivostok and Sevastopol.
By Ludovic Péron (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Airbus Helicopters delivered first NH90 NFH in final radar configuration to France
Airbus Helicopters has handed over the 15th NH90 NFH to the French Direction générale de l’armement (DGA), this is also the first of its kind to be delivered in the final radar configuration (FRC).
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Video: USN F/A-18E crashed
A U.S. Navy F/A-18E crashed in a field just south of the operations side of Naval Air Station Lemoore at 3:55 p.m. Sept. 21.
Photo: Leonard Hinkle