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China deployed its Shaanxi Y-9 transport aircraft to Chonburi, Thailand ahead of the ASEAN Military Medicine & Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise (AM-HEx).
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Arab News quoted Al-Watan newspaper as saying that Saudi Arabia has bought an unspecific number of Wing Loong UAVs from China.
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The Apache helicopter stuck in a muddy field near Huston after an emergency landing has been lifted out with help from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
A large-scale exercise in Guam that involves MV-22Bs station in Okinawa will take place this month. Ashahi Shimbu reports that Tokyo will pay $6.76 million to have the drills conducted outside its territory.
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Izvestiya cited an anonymous Russia defense official as saying that the Su-33 carrier-borne fighter heading to Syria will be equipped with the SVP-24 targeting system that allows it to bomb targets more accurately using dumb bombs.
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