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Mission Jeanne d’Arc 2021 arrives in India

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 by alert5

FS Tonnerre and FS Surcouf have arrived in Kochi, India on Mar. 30. Both warships belong to the Mission Jeanne d’Arc 2021 deployment.

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Passage Exercise of Theodore Roosevelt CSG and Indian Navy

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 by alert5

Indian Air Force fighters participated in a Passage Exercise between the Indian Navy and Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (CSG) on Mar. 28.

INDIAN OCEAN (March 28, 2021) – An F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the “Blue Diamonds” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 146, left, flies in formation with an Indian Air Force Su-30MKI, middle, and Jaguar over the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) March 28, 2021. The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. As the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed fleet, 7th Fleet routinely operates and interacts with 35 maritime nations while conducting missions to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific Region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Carlos W. Hopper)

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Experts at RAND say U.S. forces often lose during tabletop exercises to defend Taiwan

Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 by alert5

Former and current experts from RAND are saying that U.S. forces are not able to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.

軍事新聞通訊社, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

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Amazing photos of F-35B testing aboard ITS Cavour

Posted on March 27, 2021 by alert5

ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 15, 2021) A U.S. F-35B Lightning II aircraft takes off from the ski jump of the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550) March 15, 2021, in the Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft, loaded with inert weapons, was conducting flight test to expand the safe flying envelope with external stores during sea trials for the fifth generation fighter aircraft and the upgraded Italian Navy flagship. Cavour just completed phase one of its two-phase Ready for Operations campaign. U.S. Navy photo by Dane Wiedmann

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U.S. Army is blowing up this low-cost threat emitter built by the Navy

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 by alert5

NAWCAD’s Atlantic Test Ranges (ATR) has put together a low-cost Mobile Threat Emitter System (MTES) for the U.S. Army.

Photo: U.S. Navy
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