For the first time, U.S. Marines practiced loading and unloading weapons on the F-35B while at sea and at night.
U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Anne K. Henry
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Su-35S with three KAB-1500L LGBs
An early Su-35S production aircraft with three inert KAB-1500L laser-guided bombs at Zhukovsky earlier this month.
Taiwan scrambled RF-5E to monitor French Mistral-class Dixmude
Taiwan was caught off-guard when French Mistral-class helicopter carrier Dixmude was underway off its eastern coast earlier this month.
By Simon Ghesquiere/Marine Nationale (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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USN operating flights out of Malaysia to search for boat refugees
The U.S. Navy has been operating flights out of Subang, Malaysia to search for boat refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar on the northern end of the Malacca Strait.
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By MC1 Patrick Dille [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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MiG-31 shot down cruise missile
A Russian Air Force MiG-31 successfully shot down a cruise missile fired from a Tu-95MS in Russia’s northwestern region.
By Dmitriy Pichugin (http://russianplanes.net/id49677) [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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