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The U.S. Navy christened its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Oakland (LCS 24), during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony Saturday, June 29, in Mobile, Alabama.
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JULY 2019 news
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Last week, a frigate and a supply vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) have been buzzed by two Chinese fighters as the warships were transiting the Taiwan Strait. This came some days after U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft tracked a Chinese aircraft carrier in the same waters.
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Russia is offering the world’s first hydrofoil gunboat armed with sea-launched cruise missiles to prospective buyers on the international naval hardware market, CEO and Chief Designer of Radar MMS Research and Production Company Georgy Antsev told TASS at the Army-2019 international military and technical forum on Friday, June 28.
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The active Russian construction of an icebreaker fleet is often explained by purely commercial interests. Naturally, the Northern Sea Route can yield enormous profit. But one circumstance has to be remembered. New icebreakers have to assist Russia in resolving a military problem which is a hundred-year-old, expert Alexander Shishkin writes in the Vzglyad newspaper.
