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The widows of two U.S. Navy MH-60S pilots who were killed when their helicopter was swept overboard by strong waves has filed a suit against the U.S. Navy, asking the court to declare the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer as unsafe.
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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
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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Russian specialists have arrived in France to supervise French workers removing Russia military equipment installed on Mistral helicopter carriers – Vladivostok and Sevastopol.
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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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