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May- 2018 -25 MayBusiness
US Navy orders 3 additional P-8A Poseidon aircraft for $416 million
Boeing has been awarded a $416 million contract modification to produce three P8-A Poseidon aircraft for the U.S. Navy, a Department of Defense press release said
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25 MayBusiness
Kazakhstan orders 8 additional Su-30 fighters from Russia
Kazakhstan has ordered a new batch of Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets from Russia's United Aircraft Corporation, the company's president said
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24 MayBusiness
Royal Marines receive first of 25 Commando Merlin helicopter
The first of 25 new Commando Merlin helicopters designed for Royal Marine aircraft carrier operations has been delivered
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24 MayAfrica
US airstrike on al-Shabaab in Somalia kills 10 militants, Africom says
U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia, killing 10 militants associated with al-Shabaab, the Somali-led affiliate of al-Qaeda, U.S. Africa Command said
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24 MayMiddle East
SDF captures prominent French ISIS member Adrien Guihal in Syria
Another French jihadist allegedly involved in attacks in France, Adrien Guihal, was arrested by a special unit of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria
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24 MayAsia Pacific
North Korea demolishes Punggye-ri nuclear test site tunnels
North Korea demolished its only known nuclear weapons test-site at Punggye-ri, according to the government and journalists who reported explosions used to collapse and seal the site’s underground tunnels.
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24 MayEurope
Buk missile that hit flight MH17 over Ukraine came from Russian military brigade, investigators say
Investigators probing the 2014 downing of flight MH17 said for the first time that the missile which brought down the plane over eastern Ukraine came from a Russian military brigade
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24 MayAsia Pacific
Taiwan to upgrade pair of 30-year old submarines
Taiwan has received permission from a Dutch ship-building firm on May 23 to upgrade and modernize two of its aging submarines, the Ministry of National Defense said.
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23 MayAsia Pacific
US disinvites China from RIMPAC exercise over South China Sea ‘militarization’
China will not be participating in the biennial RIMPAC, or Rim of the Pacific Exercise, this year, after being disinvited, a Pentagon spokesperson said
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23 MayTechnology
Robotic vehicles: Russia’s quest for the weapons of future wars
After years of research and testing, multipurpose unmanned ground vehicles are finally being accepted for service alongside Russia’s troops.
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