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Pakistan is currently relying on the F-16 to carry precision air strikes and it wants to expand the role to the JF-17. To achieve that, the service plans to import the Thales Damocles targeting pod and integrate it on the fighter.
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For sometime Huntington Ingalls Industries has been keen to turn the San Antonio-class LPD into a missile defense ship and now Lockheed Martin has decided to jump on the bandwagon.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will get a chance to tour aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya when he visits India from Apr. 10-12.
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The U.S. Navy will take delivery of its newest aircraft carrier USS. Gerald R. Ford in September, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley told lawmakers in a written statement on Apr. 6.
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The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force announced on Apr. 5 that it will be sending its Hyūga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise to Indonesia and Philippines.
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