Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera will visit India next month and he is expected to push for the sale of ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious airplane to New Delhi.
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VP-16’s P-8A deploying to Western Pacific in December
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 in Barents Sea for drills
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 pilot lands MV-22 on HMS Illustrious
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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Lawmakers want USN to reexamine UCLASS approach
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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