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Royal Navy defies China en route to South China Sea

In what seems like more than a coincidence, the United Kingdom’s (UK) largest naval contingent in recent memory has conducted unprecedented drills off the

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In surprise move, two Koreas restore communications and agree to improve ties

The unexpected agreement comes more than a year after Pyongyang blew up ties u2014 and an inter-Korean building that had been symbolic of the relationship.

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AFT: Junior Sailor Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Genaro Ortiz, assigned to the USS Donald Cook, picks up his son following the ship's arrival to Naval Station Mayport, Fla., July 18. The guided-missile destroyer was forward- deployed with Naval Forces-Europe at NS Rota, Spain, for seven years before a homeport shift. (MC3 Aaron Lau/Navy)

 

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US$340 million buys Taiwan hi-tech surveillance of Beijing’s navy

Island will buy six MS-110 reconnaissance pods as well as training and related equipment with an eye towards better surveillance imagery of the PLA.

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Two attack helicopters attached to an army aviation brigade under the PLA Eastern Theater Command fly in alongside formation above the sea at an ultra-low altitude during a flight training exercise on June 9, 2021. The flight training covered the subjects of two-plane formation flight, island defense penetration at low-altitude, maritime assault, etc.Photo:China Military

 

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AFT: Packing Up Aerial porters work with maintainers to load a CH-47 Chinook into a C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Resolute Support retrograde mission in Afghanistan June 16. (Sgt. 1st Class Corey Vandiver/Army)

 

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'Buffs' could rain death on the Taiwan Strait

Formations of B-52 bombers. Dropping mines. Lots of them. Not just hundreds ... but, perhaps thousands. Overnight, it would make the Taiwan Strait, the

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AFT: Dropping In Paratroopers from across the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, conduct an airborne operation from a C-130J aircraft of the 815th Airlift Squadron onto Malemute Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 14. (Maj. Jason Welch/Army) (Maj. Jason Welch/4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th In)

 

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AFT: Sabre Rattling U.S. Marine Corps High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, and U.S. Army HIMARS with Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, 12th Field Artillery Brigade, fire rockets during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 on Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 18. (Lance Cpl. Alyssa Chuluda/Marine Corps) (Lance Cpl. Alyssa Chuluda/III Marine Expeditionary Force)

 

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to an explosive ordnance unit board an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to head to an oil tanker that was attacked off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea on July 30, 2021. An attack on an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire killed two crew members off Oman in the Arabian Sea, authorities said Friday, marking the first fatalities after years of assaults targeting shipping in the region. (Quinton A. Lee/U.S. Navy, via AP)

US Navy Says Drone Strike Hit Oil Tanker off Oman, Killing 2

The USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Mitscher were escorting the Mercer Street as it headed to a safe port.

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AFT: Sabre Rattling U.S. Marine Corps High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, and U.S. Army HIMARS with Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, 12th Field Artillery Brigade, fire rockets during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 on Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 18. (Lance Cpl. Alyssa Chuluda/Marine Corps) (Lance Cpl. Alyssa Chuluda/III Marine Expeditionary Force)

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A Raytheon Coyote just defeated a drone swarm

On Thursday night, a "kamikaze suicide drone" appeared from nowhere, and attacked an oil tanker off Oman, in the Arabian Sea. According to a report in the

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AFT: Weather Ahead A Navy landing craft, air cushion carrying tactical vehicles is marshaled into the amphibious transport dock Arlington during a mission rehearsal to prepare for hurricane season at Naval Base Norfolk, Virginia, July 21. (Lance Cpl. Scott Jenkins/Marine Corps) (Lance Cpl. Scott Jenkins/2nd Marine Logistics Group)

 

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AFT: Taking Aim Airman Nicholas Rotelli fires a line throwing adapter from an M14 aboard the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson for a replenish at sea July 21. Vinson is conducting operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (MCSN Elisha Smith/Navy) (Seaman Elisha Smith/USS Carl Vinson)

 

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AFT: Taking Aim Airman Nicholas Rotelli fires a line throwing adapter from an M14 aboard the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson for a replenish at sea July 21. Vinson is conducting operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (MCSN Elisha Smith/Navy) (Seaman Elisha Smith/USS Carl Vinson)

Sometimes there always a place for the old way of doing things

 

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AFT: Lawmakers protect C-130 fleet, push for new propellers in annual legislation

 

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Taiwan finishes operational evaluations of improved Sky Sword II missile | Taiwan News | 2021-08-03 16:51:00

New missile designed by Taiwan's NCSIST has extended range of 60 km | 2021-08-03 16:51:00

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