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Explore inside a submarine at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force museum

Stars and Stripes 21 Mar 2025
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Kure Museum opened on April 5, 2007, and is the only museum in Japan where you can board a real submarine ... Naval weaponry on display at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force museum in Kure, Japan.
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Ukrainian Defense Forces Shot Down 114 Enemy Drones, 81“Decoys” Vanish From Radar

MENA FN 21 Mar 2025
(MENAFN - UkrinForm) On the night of March 21, the Defense Forces shot down 114 enemy UAVs during a Russian air attack, 81 imitator UAVs failed to reach their targets and were lost. According to ... .
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Seoul wary of Trump's US Forces Japan budget cuts impacting USFK

Korea Times 21 Mar 2025
US defense spending cuts could affect Korea, analysts say ... Forces Korea (USFK) ... Forces Japan (USFJ) ... But as his defense officials and aides have noted, the Trump administration wants to keep China in check by using its forces in Korea.".
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Cincinnati Bearcats football features young defenders who could blossom in 2025

Cincinnati.com 21 Mar 2025
Cincinnati Bearcats football defense should mature in 2025. Cincinnati Bearcats football defense should mature in 2025 ... Sanks in 12 games topped all freshmen in tackles with 42 and had one tackle for loss and a forced fumble.
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Boeing awarded $20B to build next American fighter jet, the F-47

Stars and Stripes 21 Mar 2025
The rendering highlights the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter, the F-47 ... Air Force) ... Reviews of the program showed it was necessary to continue given advancements in Chinese air defenses, Air Force officials have said in recent months.
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Boeing wins Air Force’s next-gen fighter contract

Defense One 21 Mar 2025
... nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it'll be known as the F-47,” Trump announced at the White House on Friday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force Chief Gen.
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Boeing to build secretive future fighter jet

The Signal 21 Mar 2025
“We recognize the importance of designing, building and delivering a 6th-generation fighter capability for the United States Air Force,” Steve Parker, interim president and CEO of Boeing Defense, ...
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Rochester shooter Jason Levesque found guilty of assault, not attempted murder

Foster's Daily Democrat 21 Mar 2025
Mark Sisti, the defense attorney, made the case Violette had threatened the lives of Levesque and his family, and the shooting was justified as self-defense ... “This is a self-defense case, no doubt about it,” Sisti said.
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Japan says no shift in U.S. alliance despite Trump budget cut plans

Kyodo 21 Mar 2025
... Washington could halt the expansion of its forces in the Asian country as part of defense spending cuts ... There has been wider cooperation in recent times between the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S.
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The D Brief: Musk visits Pentagon; NGAD decision?; Navy’s frigate mess; Germany ups spending; And ...

Defense One 21 Mar 2025
The Air Force had paused the program last summer due to soaring cost projections that put the price of the sixth-gen fighter at three times the cost of an F-35, Defense One’s Audrey Decker reported two weeks ago.
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Eyeing China threat, Trump announces Boeing wins contract for secretive future fighter jet

Provo Daily Herald 21 Mar 2025
Air Force via APThis graphical rendering provided by the U.S ... The 47th president, who announced the award at the White House with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force leadership, said with a grin that the new fighter would be named the F-47.
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Carl Vinson strike group trains with Japan, South Korea in East China Sea

Stars and Stripes 21 Mar 2025
7th Fleet and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ... Additional training included anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and search-and-rescue drills, according to a Thursday news release from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
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Why Indonesia’s new military law is alarming pro-democracy activists and rights groups

Stars and Stripes 21 Mar 2025
The amendment to the 2004 Law on the Indonesian Armed Forces introduces several changes that aim to broaden the military’s role beyond defense. Once in force, the new law will allow active officers to ...
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NATO to ask Europe and Canada for 30% boost in military capacity

Stars and Stripes 21 Mar 2025
Japan should spend more on military, US bases Germany’s likely next leader wins parliament’s backing for huge defense and infrastructure spending Military leaders discuss Ukraine peacekeeping force as ...
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Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here's why

Journal Gazette 21 Mar 2025
defense technology ... Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers Feb ... defense companies ... The Eurofighter Typhoon, part of the British, German, Spanish and Italian forces, is manufactured by a consortium of defense companies.
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