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- Navy green lights seven MUSV marketplace submissions to advance to prototype phase
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- IAI’s new Diamond naval offering envisions flexible drones, missiles for small vessels
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- Lockheed breaks ground on new THAAD interceptor plant, as Pentagon pushes for more weapons production
- Inside Sen. Ted Budd’s plan to boost airpower, pilot retention
- General Atomics CCA drone returns to flight
- F-35B conducts flight test with British SPEAR mini-cruise missile
- Norway’s Foreign Minister warns that Russian nuclear weapons pose direct threat to “all American cities”
- Middle East ‘situation’ forces cancellation of major UK air show
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- Boots on the moon needed to beat ‘belligerent’ China: Mitchell Institute
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- To train for contested environments, SOCOM and SOUTHCOM want more ranges, authority
