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A U.S. Navy EA-18G assigned to VX-9 were injured when their jet’s environmental control system (ECS) failed during a flight from NAS Whidbey Island to NWS China Lake on Jan. 29.
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By Senior Airman John Linzmeier (DVIDS.net) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Anonymous former Japan former Maritime Self-Defense Force officials told the Asahi Shimbun that the Izumo-class helicopter destroyers were design to operate short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) fighters from the beginning.
By Kaijō Jieitai （海上自衛隊 / Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force） (http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/jmp/201612.html) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Royal Navy has deployed its Sea King helicopter to Europe for the last time with one Sea King Mk7 “eyes in the sky” traveling to Leeuwarden airbase, Netherlands recently.
Photo: Royal Navy
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The future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is now 70 percent complete, Huntington Ingalls Industries announced on Feb. 22.
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress on the potential Foreign Military Sale to Sweden of Patriot Configuration-3+ Modernized Fire Units for an estimated cost of $3.2 billion.
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