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Ships, aircraft and personnel from the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), the Indian Navy (INN) and the U.S. Navy (USN) will participate in exercise Malabar 2019 off the coast of Sasebo, Japan, September 26.
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SEPTEMBER 2019 news
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North Korea is building a massive underground facility on Mayang Island off Sinpo in South Hamgyong Province to deploy a new 3,000-ton submarine capable of carrying three to four ballistic missiles, the government here said Sunday.
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India has fully paid for the Project 11356 missile frigates, which Russia’s Yantar Shipyard in the Kaliningrad Region is building for the Indian Navy, President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told reporters on Tuesday.
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Indian Navy is looking to buy short-range surface-to-air missile systems to replace its Israeli Barak-1 air defence systems on Kamorta class corvettes.
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The Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83), carrying 517 sailors and cadets, left a military port in Dalian for ocean-going training at 10 a.m. on September 20, 2019.
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The Russian defence industry has upgraded the Kalibr missile after using the system as part of the Syria campaign. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in his interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets published on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President of the United States of America Donald Trump signed the Protocol of Amendment to the 1990 Memorandum of Understanding ("1990 MOU") Regarding United States Use of Facilities in Singapore ("2019 AMOU") today. The 2019 AMOU renews the 1990 MOU by extending it for another 15 years.
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Sealift Inc., Oyster Bay, New York, is being awarded a $14,608,000 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N3220519C3512) to fund the fifth one-year option period.
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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) and members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 participate in the first Recognized Environmental Picture Augmented by Maritime Unmanned Systems REP (MUS) exercise hosted by the Portuguese Navy in Lisbon, Portugal, September 8-20, 2019.
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Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded a $13,557,150 firm-fixed-price modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-19-C-5406 to exercise options for Mk 15 Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) sensor kits.
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The first Merlin Helicopter today touched down on the deck of HMS Prince of Wales off the Scottish coast. Not 24 hours after the second of the UK’s new aircraft carriers sailed into open waters for the first time, a Merlin helicopter was guided safely into land on the expansive deck.
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The Smerch upgraded small missile ship sailed out for another stage of running trials. Specialists of Severo-Vostochny overhaul center in Kamchatka and Dalzavod Shipyard in Vladivostok who renewed all mechanisms and arms will check the warship together with the crew, the Army Standard writes.
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According to some sources on Twitter, the China Navy Aircraft carrier Liaoning has left Qingdao naval base for sea training on Saturday 21st September, another tweet reported that the Aircraft carrier has been spotted with a Type 055 DDG together (most likely the Nanchang 101) on Sunday 22nd September.
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In late September, it will be four years since the beginning of the Russian operation in Syria. The Russian military helped the government forces regain control over 90 per cent of the national territory and built two strategically important military facilities.
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The Perekop training ship on a trans-Arctic voyage along the Northern Sea Route is sailing Vilkitsky Strait. It met the Vaigach icebreaker a day before in the Kara Sea which led the Arctic force of the Northern fleet headed by the Vice Admiral Kulakov big antisubmarine warfare ship last week, the fleet said.
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In accordance with Finland’s Ministry of Defence’s proposition, the Government of Finland has selected Swedish Company Saab as the combat system provider and integrator for the Finnish Navy’s four new Pohjanmaa-class corvettes within the Squadron 2020 program.
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The Australian Defence Force’s third Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD), HMAS Sydney (DDG 42), has commenced its first phase of sea trials which will test the ship’s hull, propulsion and navigation systems.
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The HMS Medway Offshore Patrol Vessel (P223) has been officially welcomed into the Royal British Navy with her Commissioning Ceremony that was held on Chatham Dockyard, September 19, 2019. The new warship – the second of the five Batch 2 River class OPVs – welcomed guests and the families of the ship’s company for the service and for tours of the ship, while locals lined the banks to watch the ceremony in the sunshine.
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The second of the UK’s new aircraft carriers, HMS Prince of Wales, has sailed for the first time. Eight years after she was laid down – and two after her sister HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed from the very same site – the 65,000-tonne warship left the basin at Rosyth Dockyard on the Forth, ready to begin sea trials.
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The prototype for U.S. Navy’s first unmanned aerial refueler made its first test flight from an airfield in Illinois, Boeing announced on Thursday, as Sam LaGorne reports on USNI News.
