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A MV-22B with VMM-262 was forced to land on padding after its landing gear failed to work as the Osprey return to Futenma after assisting in the rescue effort of another Osprey that went down off Okinawa on Dec. 13.
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The U.S. Navy has temporarily suspended flight operations for the Super Hornet and Growler after a EA-18G experienced an on-deck emergency at NAS Whidbey Island on Dec. 16.
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Norway has proved that the IRIS-T dogfight missile also has a surface attack capability by firing one at a small boat target in September.
By Photo taken 2005-07-16 in Koblenz by Owly K (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons
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China’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on its website that military installations on artificial islands it created in the South China Sea are for defense and self-protection.
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that on Dec. 14, USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) demonstrated the ability of the Aegis baseline 9.C1 to tackle against a “complex medium-range ballistic missile target” by destroying it using a salvo of two SM-6 Dual I interceptors.
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