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U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has defended his previous comment that the F-35C will be the last manned strike fighter his service will buy or fly.
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By Erik Hildebrandt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. Navy has concluded that the mid-air collision between two F/A-18Cs from VFA-94 and VFA-113 on Sept. 12, 2014 was an accident.
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By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Two anonymous sources told Reuters that the Japanese military is mulling the idea of having air patrols over South China Sea together with United States.
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By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Juan Antoine King [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A group of Whidbey Island residents are asking the federal court to block the U.S. Navy from using Outlying Landing Field (OLF) Coupeville to train EA-18G pilots due to noise.
By U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Ian C. Anderson, USN [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has invented a new way of making transparent spinel, a mineral that is tougher, stronger, harder than glass.
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Jamie Hartman
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