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Financial Times reported that intelligence collected by the U.S. and its allies on Jan. 23 found that China had carried out a mock attack on U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt that day when the warship transit the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan.
Graphic: Taiwan Ministry of National Defense
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A wargaming, modeling and simulation event was held at Kirtland Air Force Base recently by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate.
U.S. Air Force photo/Todd Berenger
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An executive from Boeing told reporters that his company has been given the green light to offer the F-15EX to India.
Photo: USAF
The Times reports that a Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system was cpatured in Libya and turned over to the United States.
Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Next month’s Exercise Cope North 2021 will see the U.S. Air Force push its Agile Combat Employment to the next level by having fighters operate out of an airfield that is located in the jungle of Guam.
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