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Three MV-22Bs flew from Miramar to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week, setting a new distance record in the process.
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Indonesian Ambassador to Moscow Djauhari Oratmangun told RIA Novosti in an interview that a Russian-Indonesian joint commission on military-technical cooperation will discuss the purchase of the Su-35 fighters in late November in Jakarta.
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Kommersant reported that China has inked a $2 billion contract to buy 24 Su-35 fighters.
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Bryan Clark and Jesse Sloman from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments are proposing the idea of having two forward-deployed aircraft carriers in Japan instead of just one.
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As a French naval task force lead by aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle departs for the Mediterranean, Royal Navy warship HMS Defender will join the group of ships to provide air defense cover.
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