Aviation News
VP-16 will deploying deploying for the first time with the P-8A this December. The squadron is bound for the Western Pacific.
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Admiral Kuznetsov has left Severomorsk on Sept. 19 and will take part in five-day naval exercises in the Barents Sea from Saturday until Sept. 25.
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Royal Navy Lieutenant Alan Wootton landed his MV-22 on HMS Illustrious four times when the British carrier passed the USS Kearsarge on Sept. 20 in the Red Sea.
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U.S. Reps. Randy Forbes and Mike McIntyre, the chairman and ranking members of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee, have wrote a letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus urging him not to turn UCLASS into a counter-terrorism tool.
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USS Lake Erie successfully engaged a complex separating short-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 18.
Continue reading “SM-3 Block IB successful intercept of most complex target to date”