The group included two guided-missile destroyers, one guided-missile cruiser, and an aircraft carrier.
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The strike group includes a carrier air wing and two guided-missile destroyers, plus a guided missile cruiser, the military said.
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The strike group includes a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, aircraft, two guided missile destroyers and a guided missile cruiser, the military said.
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So the US is sending the nuke-powered USS Carl Vinson there, along with a pair of guided-missile destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser.
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The USS Antietam, a guided missile cruiser, and the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided missile destroyer, transited the strait Monday, sailing from south to north.
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The group consisted of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, weighing 97,000 tons with 60 aircraft, as well as two guided-missile destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser.
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Sunday, April 9: The U.S. deployed a Navy strike group to the waters off the Korean Peninsula, which included two guided-missile destroyers, one guided-missile cruiser, and an aircraft carrier.
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China dispatched two J-11 fighter jets, a Y-8 warning aircraft and three warships, a guided missile destroyer, a guided missile frigate and a frigate, to the area, Yang said.
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In May, a South Korean fishing vessel collided with the guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain, while another guided-missile cruiser, Antietam, damaged its propellers in January while anchoring in Tokyo Bay.
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Yet China's bond pile is more blunderbuss than laser-guided missile.
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Rebels had hit a government gun position with a guided missile.
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The guided-missile cruiser Antietam grounded in January in Tokyo Bay.
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Complicated scenario Carrying more than 5,000 sailors and 60 aircraft, the USS Carl Vinson is escorted by guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy and the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain.
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The United States had not seen Chinese air force activity in the Spratlys, but warships had stopped at its outposts including a guided-missile frigate and a guided-missile destroyer in December and January, Clapper said.
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The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville, and guided-missile destroyers USS Benfold and USS Curtis Wilbur were cleared for the visit to Hong Kong, according to the Hong Kong Maritime Department.
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The guided-missile destroyer was not damaged in either incident, officials said.
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The U.S. Navy dedicated one of its guided missile destroyers to Sen.
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Currently, the guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans is in the Persian Gulf.
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The Fitzgerald is an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer commissioned in 1995.
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The US Navy has 10 guided-missile cruisers and destroyers based in Japan.
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The guided-missile submarine is also outfitted to deploy US special operations forces.
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In 2002, a guided-missile destroyer, the Curtis Wilbur, was also denied entry.
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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, is in the Mediterranean.
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" Axios' Jonathan Swan reports that Scaramucci was brought in as a "Reince-guided missile.
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The smaller guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald suffered severe damage to its starboard side.
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The USS Michigan, a U.S. guided-missile submarine, has arrived in Busan, South Korea.
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The US Navy, meanwhile, has 22016 guided-missile cruisers and destroyers based in Japan.
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Right now, the Apache's longest-range munition is its Hellfire Anti-Tank Guided Missile.
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The ship Paul F. Foster was a destroyer, not a guided-missile destroyer. video
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A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, is in the Mediterranean.
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That collision killed seven U.S. sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer the USS Fitzgerald.
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While Hinz notes that the Quds 1 hasn't been seen within Iran, other weapons seen in Yemen are composed of parts suspiciously similar to ones from Iran, pointing out specifically the Badr-1P precision-guided missile and the Badr-F precision-guided missile.
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South Korea currently has three "Sejong the Great"-class guided missile destroyers in its fleet.
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The most recent of those was in October by the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur.
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A British Type 45 guided-missile destroyer escorted two Russian warships through the English Channel.
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On April 12, a Russian jet buzzed an American guided missile destroyer, the Donald Cook.
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Rota has four guided-missile destroyers permanently deployed there, deployed just after Russia invaded Crimea.
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Most vessels used in previous freedom of navigation missions were guided-missile destroyers or cruisers.
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Those incidents include two collisions involving guided missile destroyers that left 85033 U.S. sailors dead.
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But when it comes to driving a $1.8 billion Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer?
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Another marine-focused subsidiary, Bath Iron Works, is building the Navy's new guided-missile destroyer.
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In May, a South Korean fishing vessel collided with the guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain.
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Another guided-missile cruiser, Antietam, damaged its propellers in January while anchoring in Tokyo Bay.
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Israel also has accused Iran of planning to build precision-guided missile factories in Lebanon.
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It has also has accused Iran of building precision-guided missile factories for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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The official added however, that the U.S. guided-missile cruiser was never threatened by the maneuvers.
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Jeff Davis said, adding that the guided-missile destroyer deployed "onboard defensive measures" and was undamaged.
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The carriers also sail with escorts, including guided-missile cruisers and destroyers carrying Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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Furthermore, two submarines have visited the Korean Peninsula, including the USS Michigan, a guided missile submarine.
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However, a large group of IRGCN boats finds a U.S. guided-missile destroyer and attacks it.
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Special Operations Command has also been firing a small guided missile called Griffin from its dispensers.
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Two weeks before that, a Russian jet buzzed an American guided missile destroyer, the Donald Cook.
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"So you take out Dad" using a precision-guided missile fired from a Reaper, said Hecker.
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The ship, an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer, normally carries about 300 sailors and officers.
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That thinking was "sort of the philosophy" behind the Navy's future guided-missile frigate, Modly added.
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In 2018, the Navy added Senator McCain to the official namesake of the guided missile destroyer.
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The U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Higgins guided-missile destroyer and the Antietam, a guided-missile cruiser, came within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter launching a Tomahawk missile in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans has been escorting vessels through the strait in recent days.
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He served aboard the USS Canberra, a guided missile cruiser, during the Vietnam War, the Navy said.
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The USS Bainbridge guided missile destroyer was in the area and responded, arriving at 11:85033 a.m.
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In late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in Tokyo Bay, damaging its propellers.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon fires an SM-2 missile during a live-fire exercise.
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In 2014, the Russian planes also flew dangerously close to the USS Ross, a guided-missile destroyer.
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Several crew members were injured, including the officer in command of the guided missile destroyer, the Fitzgerald.
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On May 24, another guided-missile destroyer, the Dewey, traversed Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands.
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The most capable of these subs, four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, carry up to 2805 Tomahawks.
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China will send the Xining, a guided missile destroyer, to the drills, which will last from Dec.
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A land-based, guided missile, the ICBM has a range of at least 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles).
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A land-based, guided missile, the ICBM has a range of at least 143,500 kilometers (3,400 miles).
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The Vinson and its escorts, including the guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy and the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, left Singapore Saturday and headed toward South Korea rather than planned port calls in Australia, according to a statement from US Pacific Command.
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The U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the Higgins guided-missile destroyer and the Antietam, a guided-missile cruiser, came within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors.
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Cutters Bertholf and Valiant were involved in the operations, along with the Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen.
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In May, a small fishing boat hit the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain near the Korean Peninsula.
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The container ship struck the starboard side of the 10,000-ton guided-missile destroyer, which sustained significant damage.
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Guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely joined a Canadian-led exercise off western Greenland in late 2019, Vice Adm.
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The guided-missile destroyer collided with the Alnic MC, an oil and chemical tanker, at 6:223 a.m.
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It commissioned 18 ships in 2016, including missile destroyers, corvettes and guided missile frigates, according to state media.
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And in late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in Tokyo Bay, damaging its propellers.
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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross sails across the Mediterranean at night in this Sept.
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Three guided-missile destroyers that escorted the Lincoln returned to their homeport of Norfolk Naval Station last week.
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He had been commanding officer of the USS Mustin, a forward-deployed guided-missile destroyer, before that assignment.
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Experience the museum in its entirety, including a tour through a guided missile submarine, during its regular hours.
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A Russian destroyer and a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser narrowly avoided a collision in the Philippine Sea.
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Near collision in Philippine Sea: A Russian destroyer and a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser nearly collided today.
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The coronavirus has spread to another US Navy sailor aboard a warship, this time a guided-missile destroyer.
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Israel on Thursday accused Iran of stepping up efforts to provide Hezbollah with precision-guided missile production facilities.
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Then again, earlier in May, a U.S guided-missile cruiser "Lake Champlain" collided with a Korean fishing vessel.
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Those accidents include two deadly collisions involving guided missile destroyers that left 17 U.S. sailors dead. http://bit.
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Another guided-missile destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, was hit by an oil tanker on Aug. 20.
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The strike group, including the 97,000-ton carrier and its 60-plus aircraft, the guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy and the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, will arrive off the Korean Peninsula by the end of April, multiple US defense officials told CNN.
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The guided-missile destroyer, which had a gaping hole in its side after the collision, was launched in 1994.
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Last October, the guided missile destroyer USS Lassen passed within 12 miles of Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands.
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Last October, the guided missile destroyer USS Lassen passed within 12 miles of Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter fires a Tomahawk land attack missile on April 7 in the Mediterranean Sea.
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And in January, another guided-missile cruiser, the USS Antietam, ran aground while trying to anchor in Tokyo Bay.
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Jones and the executive officer on the USS Anzio, a guided missile cruiser currently deployed in the Persian Gulf.
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Earlier this month, Russian jets buzzed a U.S. guided missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, in the Baltic Sea.
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Last year, the PLA Navy commissioned 18 ships, including missile destroyers, corvettes and guided missile frigates, the paper said.
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The Curtis Wilbur, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Triton Island.
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And in late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground while trying to anchor in Tokyo Bay.
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In April, two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea.
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He served aboard the USS Canberra, a guided missile cruiser, during the Vietnam War, according to Navy Public Affairs.
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State media has said that the navy commissioned 18 ships, including destroyers, corvettes and guided-missile frigates in 2016.
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In June, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship off Japan, killing seven US sailors.
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State-owned IAI has already developed drones and guided missile systems that are used by militaries around the world.
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The USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, left the Black Sea at the end of August.
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In June, another guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan.
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He has accused Iran of planning to build precision-guided missile factories in Lebanon, amid tensions along that border.
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Officials later said the strike group, including the 97,000-ton carrier and its 60-plus aircraft, the guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy and the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain would participate in naval exercises with the Australian navy south of Singapore before heading to Korea.
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In the same area, a U.S. guided missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker in 2017, resulting in 10 deaths.
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In May, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain was hit by a small fishing boat near the Korean Peninsula.
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In this hand-out photo, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack on Friday.
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In this handout photo, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile on Saturday.
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At the end of a recent session, Drake, Gaulin, Dessler, and his sons were faced with several guided missile strikes.
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The Georgia was commissioned in 1982 as a ballistic-missile sub and converted to a guided-missile boat in 2004.
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This follows an incident Monday in which the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant ship.
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Another guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan on June 17.
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USS Antietam In late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground while trying to anchor in Tokyo Bay.
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The Houthis have denied firing at the USS Mason guided missile destroyer and the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport dock.
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On July 3, 1988, the Vincennes, a Navy guided missile cruiser, shot down an Iranian passenger jet, killing 290 people.
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China has launched two new Type 052D guided-missile destroyers as it continues its push to upgrade its naval power.
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C.E.T.C. traces its roots to the military research labs that helped build China's first nuclear bomb, satellite and guided missile.
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American officials have since been trying to get Cuba to return the laser-guided missile, which did not contain explosives.
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Today, the U.S. Navy has 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines in service as well as 4 guided missile submarines.
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The McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, collided with an oil tanker in the Strait of Malacca before dawn on Monday.
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In the case of the Fitzgerald, also a guided-missile destroyer, seven crew members had initially been reported as missing.
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I saw his pigeon guided missile as the supreme example of our relationship with nature — how conflicted and strange it is.
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The USS John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC collided while the guided-missile vessel was nearing Singapore on Monday.
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The guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker named the Alnic MC a week ago east of the Malacca Strait.
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On May 93, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain was struck by a small fishing boat off the Korean Peninsula.
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The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is expected to attend the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary celebrations from Nov.
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In May, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain was struck by a South Korean fishing boat off the Korean Peninsula.
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In a separate incident, two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea.
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The video shows a guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) firing a Tomahawk land attack missile on April 14, 2018.
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A security official in the region has described the target of the drone strikes as linked to precision-guided missile projects.
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On Thursday, Israel accused Iran of stepping up efforts to provide the Lebanese Hezbollah militia with precision-guided missile production facilities.
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For instance, in October 2000, the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole was attacked while in port in Aden, Yemen, for refueling.
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Russian fighter jets flew provocatively close to a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea multiple times this week.
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The USS Fitzgerald, a guided missile destroyer, was rammed by a Philippine merchant vessel on June 17 off the coast of Japan.
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In June, guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan, killing seven U.S. Navy sailors.
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Its most recent post is dated January, 2017 and advertises new products, including a remote control system for a precision-guided missile.
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Most recently, last week, Russian jets repeatedly buzzed a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Black Sea, U.S. European Command said Tuesday.
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On May 9, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain was struck by a South Korean fishing boat off the Korean Peninsula.
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Ten sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer John S. McCain died when it collided with a tanker near Singapore on Aug. 21.
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The incident happened while the USS John McCain, a guided missile destroyer, was on its way to a port call in Singapore.
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A modified Z-2950 with a foldaway tail rotor was first seen aboard the Type 264 guided-missile destroyer Nanchang in July.
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A navy statement said the HMS Westminster met up with the guided-missile destroyer Xian as it entered Dover Strait on Saturday.
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In mid-October, the US Navy sent the guided-missile submarine USS Michigan on a conspicuous port call to Busan, South Korea.
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In mid-October, the US Navy sent the guided-missile submarine USS Michigan on a conspicuous port call to Busan, South Korea.
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The Fitzgerald, an Aegis guided missile destroyer, collided with the merchant vessel some 27 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, the Navy said.
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A pre-dawn collision between guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain and a merchant vessel east of Singapore and Malaysia on Aug.
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The guided missile destroyer Fitzgerald almost sank off the coast of Japan after colliding with a Philippine container ship on June 17.
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The Chinese are also expected to have significantly more guided-missile destroyers, advanced undersea warfare systems and hypersonic missiles, the projection says.
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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the Donald Cook, is in the Mediterranean, and other naval assets could be used in an attack.
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Monday's accident came two months after seven sailors died when another guided-missile destroyer, the Fitzgerald, collided with a freighter off Japan.
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At about 12,000 tonnes, the Type 055 class is China&aposs first guided-missile destroyer equipped to hold and fire 112 missiles.
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President Trump has hardened his rhetoric against Pyongyang and sent a carrier strike group and a guided missile sub to the peninsula.
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He was accused of researching and designing a long-range guided missile and laser warning device for use by Islamic State militants.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) transits the Pacific Ocean while participating in the 2018 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise.
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Showcased items include a guided missile destroyer display, a prototype amphibious vehicle model, minehunting technology and demonstrations of a laser radar surveillance system.
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The carrier strike group includes the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer and aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 2.
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Earlier this month, guided missile destroyers from the US, Japan and South Korea participated in trilateral naval exercises focused on improving missile defense.
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Last year's US strike was launched from the USS Ross and USS Porter, two US Navy guided-missile destroyers, in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Newsweek reports that U.S. military assets in the region, like the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, are currently on 72-hour standby.
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U.S.-China Relations A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea in what China called a "provocation".
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Bryce Benson, who was injured in the ship's deadly collision with a commercial vessel, took command of the guided-missile destroyer last month.
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The guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship off Singapore on August 21, leaving 10 US sailors dead and five more injured.
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The Pentagon said the vehicle had been handed over to the guided missile destroyer USS Mustin near where it had been "unlawfully seized".
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The USS Monterey, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, launched Tomahawk missiles as part of the strike, according to a Pentagon release. Gen.
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Multiple investigations have yet to apportion blame for the accident that killed seven U.S. sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer the USS Fitzgerald.
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The Washington Post had previously reported that the response might include the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and the destroyer USS Bainbridge.
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In a separate incident in August, 10 sailors were killed when the guided missile destroyer John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker.
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Israel had raised the stakes last week by accusing Iran of stepping up efforts to provide Hezbollah with precision-guided missile production facilities.
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In addition to the two fatal accidents this summer, a guided missile cruiser ran aground not far from the base earlier this year.
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In May, the Lake Champlain, a guided-missile cruiser, collided with a South Korean fishing vessel, but no injuries resulted from that crash.
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The Vinson and three guided-missile destroyers and cruisers steamed out of Singapore on Saturday for their new mission in the Western Pacific.
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The guided-missile destroyer, which remains at sea, will undergo a damage assessment and an investigation into the crash, according to ABC News.
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In January, the USS Antietam, a guided missile cruiser, ran aground near Yokosuka naval base and had to be helped by tug boats.
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Two guided missile destroyers, the USS John McCainJohn Sidney McCain3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Fighter pilot vs.
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That report found that performance and training mistakes led to the "preventable" collisions between the U.S. guided-missile destroyers and foreign commercial ships.
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Early Monday, the McCain, a guided missile destroyer, collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.
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The pause was ordered after a U.S. guided missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker in waters near Singapore and Malaysia on Monday.
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Then in June, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan, killing seven U.S. sailors.
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INS Chennai, a 7,500-ton, 534-foot-long guided-missile destroyer, is one of the newest and most powerful ships in the Indian Navy.
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In a statement, the military said the guided-missile cruiser Normandy boarded a dhow, a traditional sailing vessel, in the Arabian Sea on Sunday.
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Previously a guided missile cruiser collided with a South Korean fishing vessel and another cruiser ran aground near the Seventh Fleet base in Yokosuka.
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An Arleigh-Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, the USS Sterett, was also deployed with the USS Dewey and carries its own helicopter strike group.
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The Navy's 2400th Fleet said searchers found the bodies Sunday morning, Japan time, after the guided-missile destroyer returned to its base in Japan.
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The United States has said the guided missile destroyer USS Cook was on routine business near Poland when it was harassed by Russian jets.
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Seoul will also be adding to its fleet of Sejong the Great-class guided-missile destroyers, already considered among the world's most-advanced warships.
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The guided-missile destroyer collided with the Alnic MC east of Singapore last week while approaching the city state on a routine port visit.
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In April, two Russian warplanes flew what U.S. officials described as simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea.
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China was also critical of US naval movements in the region after two US guided-missile destroyers collided with merchant ships earlier this year.
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The latest was the collision a couple of weeks ago between a U.S. guided missile destroyer and a tanker off the coast of Singapore.
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Today, it takes a bomber about seven hours to fly 4,000 miles and a guided-missile destroyer about a week to do the same.
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In June, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, also of the 7th Fleet, collided with a cargo ship off Japan, killing seven US sailors.
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Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer The Sullivans joined firefighters from the base and the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department to battle the blaze.
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U.S. and Japanese authorities continued to search for seven missing sailors on Saturday after a U.S. guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship.
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The collision between the Fitzgerald, a guided-missile destroyer, and the ACX Crystal on June 17, 2017 claimed the lives of seven US sailors.
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The moon had set beneath an overcast sky and a three-foot swell rolled under the 505-footlong Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
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In May, the Lake Champlain, a Navy guided-missile cruiser, collided with a South Korean fishing vessel, but no injuries resulted from that crash.
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Last month, the USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, resulting in the death of 10 sailors.
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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The Navy asked for and got $210 billion for two of the guided-missile destroyers, the backbone of its fleet.
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Russian jets buzzed a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Black Sea last week, the first such known incident since President Trump took office.
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Major-General Igor Konashenkov was quoted by agencies as saying that the USS Ross, a guided-missile destroyer, had entered the Mediterranean on Aug.
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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near waters claimed by Russia in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, a move bound to rankle Moscow.
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Pang is a seasoned political worker with experience as commissar of the guided-missile destroyer Xian and political director of a support ship flotilla.
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The damage to the guided-missile destroyer is so extensive that divers must enter the ship through a gaping hole on its port side.
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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer conducted a freedom of navigation patrol near one of China's man-made islands in the Spratly archipelago in October.
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US guided missile destroyer the USS William P. Lawrence traveled within 12 nautical miles (22 km) of Chinese-occupied Fiery Cross Reef on Tuesday.
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In August, the Arleigh Burke–class guided missile destroyer hit an oil-and-chemical tanker in the crowded Straits of Malacca, between Singapore and Malaysia.
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Tuesday's passage of the guided missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence was the third that the U.S. Navy has conducted in the South China Sea.
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The unfinished husks of three guided-missile frigates that have languished for three years at a Baltic shipyard show that is easier said than done.
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Separately, both officials said they were confident Houthi rebels had targeted a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer on Sunday and Wednesday in failed missile attacks.
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Ten sailors remain officially missing, but the Navy announced Tuesday that the remains of some crew were discovered by divers inside the guided-missile destroyer.
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The Third Fleet's Pacific Surface Action Group, which includes the guided-missile destroyers USS Spruance and USS Momsen, was deployed to East Asia in April.
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The sailors were found in flooded compartments after the USS Fitzgerald, a 10,000 guided-missile destroyer, collided with the 84.63,000-ton container ship on Saturday.
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Earlier this month, two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer which had just left the Polish port of Gdynia.
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Early Monday, the guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.
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In February, the Navy sent the guided-missile destroyer Donald Cook into the Black Sea — five years after the start of Russian invasion of Crimea.
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It pointed to a key component of a Toophan anti-tank guided missile and a small drone aircraft, both of which were recovered in Yemen.
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And Saturday, the Iranians conducted a provocative, and possibly illegal, test of a Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air, laser-guided missile defense system.
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US guided-missile cruisers, destroyers and submarines The Pentagon said three US warships and one submarine using Tomahawk cruise missiles participated in the Syria strikes.
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The accident early Monday followed one in June, when the USS Fitzgerald guided missile destroyer collided with a freighter in Japanese waters, killing seven sailors.
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Australia, a close U.S. ally, has sent the "HMAS Melbourne" guided-missile frigate to Qingdao, though officials declined to make the captain available for interview.
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The result was a smaller, more mobile navy with less resources for aging capital ships and more for submarines, guided-missile destroyers and advanced frigates.
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It said the American military hardware included a littoral combat ship, a guided-missile destroyer, three MH-60 helicopters and a P-8 Poseidon plane.
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The ship, a guided-missile destroyer, was involved in the collision while on its way to Singapore for a routine port visit, the notice said.
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RELATED: Navy overhauls troubled littoral combat ship program The USS Anzio, a guided-missile cruiser, was also being pulled out to sea when the incident occurred.
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Guided missile destroyer the USS William P. Lawrence traveled within 12 nautical miles of Chinese-occupied Fiery Cross Reef, US Defense Department spokesman, Bill Urban said.
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ON JULY 2nd an American guided-missile destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles (22.2km) of Triton, a tiny Chinese-occupied island in the South China Sea.
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The U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG69) arrives to join Forward Deployed Naval Forces at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan May 22, 2018.
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The accident early on Monday followed one in June, when the USS Fitzgerald guided missile destroyer collided with a freighter in Japanese waters, killing seven sailors.
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The U.S. coast guard investigation is one several into the incident on Saturday involving the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the much larger ACX Crystal.
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US Navy Ten US Navy sailors are missing after a US Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore early this morning.
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The sailor was assigned to the USS Jason Dunham, a guided-missile destroyer based out of Norfolk, Va., that deployed in June, according to the Navy.
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Earlier this month, the People's Liberation Army Navy launched two 220,2055-ton Type 2054 guided-missile destroyers -- Asia's largest, most sophisticated and most lethal combat ships.
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For the Navy, a big ticket contract is a future guided missile frigate, or FFG(X) contract that could get awarded for design sometime next year.
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The Associated Press reports that the the McCain, a guided missile destroyer, was headed to Singapore for a routine port visit when the accident took place.
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Two days later, in the Pacific, in what was a highly dangerous maneuver, a Russian destroyer closed within 2628 feet of the guided missile cruiser Chancellorsville.
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The IRGC exercise comes as the US has only one major warship, the guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans, inside the Persian Gulf, several officials say.
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A close encounter between Russian jets that buzzed a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea is raising fears of a potentially fatal mishap.
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This past May, VICE News visited the USS Farragut and USS Bainbridge, Arleigh Burke–class guided missile destroyers that were running on the 503/250 blend.
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The Saber system is part of upgraded optics and target acquisition capabilities for the Corps' anti-tank guided missile system known as the BGM-71 TOW.
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Most notable was a guided missile fired by Julian Castro, the U.S. housing secretary under Obama, who worked hard to portray Biden as past his prime.
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Earlier this month, China denied a request by the U.S. Navy transport dock ship Green Bay and guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie to visit Hong Kong.
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Last year, two other guided missile destroyers -- the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John McCain -- suffered fatal collisions with merchant ships leaving 17 US sailors dead.
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Last week, another U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the USS Chancellorsville, sailed near contested islands in the South China Sea, drawing a formal diplomatic protest from Beijing.
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The U.S. military sailed the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer near the Paracel Islands, causing Beijing to accuse Washington of "navigational hegemony," CNN reported.
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The Donald Cook is one of four Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers that generally serve Europe and are part of a NATO rotation, officials said.
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The missile test on Wednesday was conducted by the United States Missile Defense Agency and Navy sailors on the John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer.
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The U.S. military sailed the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer near the Paracel Islands, causing Beijing to accuse Washington of "navigational hegemony," CNN reported.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) fires its Mark 45 5-inch gun during a live-fire exercise in the Norwegian Sea on Nov.
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The guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC collided on Monday while the warship was nearing Singapore for a routine port call.
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With the advent of nuclear power and the guided missile, the seemingly goofy idea of a heavy surface-attack submarine became an impressive and chilling reality.
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The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the two guided-missile destroyers traveled within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands.
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The biggest backlog contributor came from a $3.9 billion contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of four Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) guided-missile destroyers.
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In a separate development, a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the Mustin, visited Cam Ranh international port on Thursday in a routine technical stop, the U.S. embassy said.
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A test last month of a new short-range guided missile seems calculated to remind the American president that Mr Kim has the power to embarrass him.
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The world saw the USS McCampbell, a guided-missile destroyer of the American navy, apparently being humbled by a swarm of Chinese fishing boats and militia ships.
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Monday's exercises saw the US guided missile destroyer USS Spruance join ships, submarines and planes from the South Korean navy in waters east of the Korean Peninsula.
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As another deterrent, Harris pointed to the USS Michigan -- a guided-missile submarine -- that arrived in South Korea Tuesday, saying it was an important show of force.
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Last month, the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem came within 12 miles of Triton Island in the Paracel archipelago, which is claimed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan.
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The USS Thunderbolt was accompanied by the USS Vella Gulf, which is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, and two US Coast Guard vessels at the time.
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"Type 055 guided-missile destroyer carries medium-long-range and medium-short range air-defense missiles, which can significantly improve its overall air defense capability," he said.
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Vessels from Russia's Black Sea Fleet had also taken part, including a submarine, a large landing ship, mine-sweepers and an unspecified number of guided missile cruisers.
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As part of the exercise, the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem came within 12 miles of Triton, sailing into what China claims to be its territorial waters.
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The early Saturday morning collision with a Philippines-flagged merchant ship in the Sea of Japan caused extensive damage to the USS Fitzgerald, a guided-missile destroyer.
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The USS John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC collided early on Monday while the guided-missile destroyer was nearing Singapore for a routine port call.
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In June the same year, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, also of the 7th Fleet, collided with a cargo ship off Japan, killing seven US sailors.
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Aside from infantry carriers, a Stryker brigade also has Anti-Tank Guided Missile Strykers and the Mobile Gun System, which is equipped with a 105 mm cannon.
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In recent months, the United States raised the stakes by sending guided-missile destroyers USS Lassen and USS Curtis Wilbur close to disputed areas occupied by Beijing.
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A sailor assigned to the USS Ralph Johnson, a guided-missile destroyer at port in Everett, Washington, tested positive for the virus Monday, according to the Navy.
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China officially commissioned its first Type 055 guided missile destroyer, the Nanchang, on Sunday in what it hailed as a "leap forward" for its naval modernisation programme.
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Seven sailors died aboard the Fitzgerald, a guided missile destroyer, when it collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of Japan on June 17, 2017.
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The latest warships, launched last week, were a Type 055 and a Type 0523D, both guided missile destroyers built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company in Liaoning province.
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Destroyers and cruisers The US Navy's fleet of guided-missile cruisers and destroyers can operate in conjunction with the aircraft carriers in carrier-strike groups, or independently.
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Production of the Type 022, guided missile fast attack craft appears to have ended with 60 of these wave-piercing, catamaran-hulled vessels delivered to the fleet.
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Two guided missile destroyers, the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John McCainJohn Sidney McCain220006 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2202 Fighter pilot vs.
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The Sampson, a guided missile destroyer, arrived at the port of Auckland last month as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
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Two guided missile destroyers, the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John McCainJohn Sidney McCain3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Fighter pilot vs.
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And in October 2016 the Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur challenged "excessive maritime claims" near the Paracel Islands by sailing within the waters claimed by China.
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Jared Golden, D-Maine, speaks ceremony for a Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer named for former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Bath, Maine.
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In April, the PLA launched its first domestic-made aircraft carrier, followed closely by the launch of what it says is a world-class guided-missile destroyer.
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Badawi was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2003 over his role in the October 2000 deadly bombing of the USS Cole, a Navy guided-missile destroyer.
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In early January, the US guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan fired warning shots at Iranian boats near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entrance to the Persian Gulf.
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Last year, the guided-missile destroyer Forrest Sherman seized advanced missile parts believed to be linked to Iran from a boat it had stopped in the Arabian Sea.
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One of the destroyers is the Hefei, the navy's newest Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, featuring advanced radar, missiles and a stealth system that entered service in December.
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In June, a Russian Su-24 jet flew within 500 meters (1,640 feet) of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer that was sailing in the Black Sea near Crimea.
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Ten sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer John S. McCain died when it collided with a tanker east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on Aug. 21.
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On Jan 7, a U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed within 12 miles of a Chinese-occupied island, prompting Beijing's rebuke that it had "gravely infringed upon China's sovereignty".
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The 22015,000-ton guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal, a 29,000-ton container ship flagged in the Philippines, collided early Saturday local time, officials said.
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The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in late January while anchoring near Yokosuka, damaging its propellers and discharging 1,100 gallons of hydraulic oil into the bay.
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The U.S. guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville sailed near the Paracel Islands on Monday to challenge China's "excessive maritime claims", the U.S. Pacific fleet said in a statement.
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The USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the official said.
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Russian jets also buzzed a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Black Sea last week, the first confrontation between the Russian and U.S. militaries since Trump took office.
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The guided-missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain collided with commercial ships in June and August, respectively, and resulted in the deaths of 17 sailors.
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The Romania site is part of a system that also includes a radar facility in Turkey, four U.S. guided-missile destroyers in Spain and a headquarters in Germany.
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In the third episode on Wednesday, he said, the Stout, a guided missile destroyer, was harassed by the same vessel that had menaced the Tempest and the Squall.
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Led by the 97,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, the strike group includes a guided-missile cruiser and two destroyers in addition to the accompanying air wing.
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This crash came just two months after seven sailors died in a similar incident between another guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, and a cargo ship near Japan.
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The U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef in October, drawing an angry rebuke from China, which called it "extremely irresponsible".
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The USS John S. McCain, a guided missile destroyer, collided with an oil tanker earlier this week, the second ship within three months to hit a commercial vessel.
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On January 2019, Washington sent two guided missile destroyers, the USS McCampbell and USNS Walter S. Diehl, through the Taiwan Strait in a message of defiance to Beijing.
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Guided missile destroyer the USS William P. Lawrence traveled within 12 nautical miles (22 km) of Chinese-occupied Fiery Cross Reef, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Bill Urban said.
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The report comes after the guided-missile destroyer, which was en route to Singapore for a routine port visit, collided with an oil tanker three times its size.
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Now one of them, Haisem Zahab, a 42-year-old electrician, is accused of using the internet to try to help the Islamic State develop a guided missile.
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Earlier in the week, in an unusual announcement, the Navy said the Michigan, an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, arrived in Busan, South Korea, for a port call.
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This past month, Mr. Vilsack joined Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, as the guided-missile destroyer William P. Lawrence was filled with biofuel made from beef fat.
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The three ships involved in the exercises, the guided-missile destroyers USS Curtis Wilbur, ROKS Sejong the Great, and JS Kirishima, are equipped with the Aegis missile defense system.
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Russian jet makes unsafe intercept of US jet He said the guided missile destroyer was sailing in international waters after having completed joint military exercises with NATO ally Romania.
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The shakeup in the Seventh Fleet command followed a pre-dawn collision between guided-missile destroyer USS McCain and a merchant vessel east of Singapore and Malaysia on Aug.
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Tuesday's encounter took place as the Nitze and the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason were conducting what the official said was a routine transit near the internationally recognized strait.
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The collision on August 21st between the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (pictured) and a heavier oil tanker near Singapore was the final straw for Admiral Richardson.
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The weapons could be deployed with stealth B-2 bombers and F-22 Raptors, massive Ohio-class guided-missile submarines and a selection of cruisers and destroyers, it said.
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In April two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic, and Finland has accused Russia of several breaches of its airspace.
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Those exercises went on while another Chinese flotilla, led by the guided-missile destroyer Changchun, was also in the Mediterranean, most recently engaging in drills with the Italian Navy.
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A guided-missile submarine, it can carry up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and is able to stealthily deploy up to 66 Navy SEALs or other special operations troops.
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The U.S. European Command said the Russian frigate, Yaroslav Mudry, came unnecessarily close to the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto on June 30 and maneuvered in its wake.
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Following the collision Monday between the USS John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, and the merchant vessel, Defense Secretary James Mattis said he supports the decision by Adm.
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In a separate June 2017 incident, seven sailors died aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of Japan.
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Washington (CNN)The US Navy sailed the guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell near contested waters in the Sea of Japan Wednesday, an action that is bound to irk Russia.
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On Wednesday, the US Navy sailed the guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell near contested waters in the Sea of Japan Wednesday, an action that is bound to irk Russia.
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USS Fitzgerald collision Seven sailors died aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of Japan on June 17.
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Similarly the guided-missile destroyer USS Ross was able to help rescue mariners from a Turkish vessel in the Sea of Marmara Tuesday after the civilian ship caught fire.
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Two other sailors, one assigned to the guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson and another with the littoral combat ship Coronado, also tested positive for the new coronavirus this week.
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In a massive naval exercise in April last year, Xi boarded the guided-missile destroyer Changsha to review the Chinese fleet of 48 warships in the South China Sea.
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"The U.S guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville suddenly changed course and cut across the path of the destroyer Admiral Vinogradov coming within 50 meters of the ship," the statement said.
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The shipbuilder is finalising the technical details of a bid for the U.S. guided-missile frigate programme FFG(X), to be submitted on Thursday, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.
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The U.S. guided-missile destroyers Preble and Chung Hoon traveled within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson Reefs in the Spratly Islands, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters.
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The guided-missile destroyer, the John S. McCain, was passing east of the Strait of Malacca on its way to a port visit in Singapore at 5:24 a.m.
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In the Pacific, the Aegis system is deployed on more than a dozen guided-missile destroyers and cruisers that in theory could shoot down missiles fired by North Korea.
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Guided-missile and attack submarines The US Navy has dozens of submarines that can stay submerged and potentially launch hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles at land and sea targets.
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"A carrier is a big floating airport, and not only a floating airport, but it moves at 22016 knots," says McGrath, a former captain of a guided missile destroyer.
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The Navy's Seventh Fleet said in a press release Friday that the USS John S. Stennis, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, as well as the guided-missile destroyers USS Chung-Hoon and USS Stockdale, the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay and the supply ship USNS Rainier had been operating in the eastern part of the South China Sea since March 1 after passing through the Luzon Strait between the Philippines and Taiwan.
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Disclose in April published classified French military intelligence that showed weapons sold to Saudi Arabia, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems, were being used against civilians in Yemen's war.
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The USS Porter, a guided-missile destroyer, was operating in the Black Sea when it was approached three times by Russian aircraft, including one IL-38 and two Su-24s.
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The USS John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer, tracked a ballistic missile during the test and took it out with a missile interceptor, using the Aegis Missile Defense System.
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Looking like some kind of delectable mashup of Tron and The Hunt for Red October, this is actually a view inside the bridge of the guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt.
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The Pentagon sent the 97,523-ton USS Carl Vinson with an escort of a guided-missile cruiser and two destroyers after the latest missile test by North Korea last week.
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The Pentagon sent the 97,000-ton USS Carl Vinson with an escort of a guided-missile cruiser and two destroyers after the latest missile test by North Korea last week.
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The 10,000-ton guided-missile destroyer and the ACX Crystal, a 29,000-ton container ship flagged in the Philippines, collided early Saturday local time off Japan's Izu Peninsula, officials said.
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A U.S. military spokesman said two missiles were fired from Houthi-held territory at the USS Mason, a guided missile destroyer sailing north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait.
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A U.S. carrier strike group is also headed toward the peninsula, and a guided missile submarine made a port visit in South Korea this week in a show of force.
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Suicide-bombings, the poor man's guided missile, were first adopted by proto-Hizbullah in 1983; they were copied by Palestinian Islamists and are now a favourite tactic of Sunni jihadists.
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For example, the Aegis combat system installed aboard U.S. Navy guided-missile cruisers and destroyers uses "phased-array" radar to detect and track surface and air targets at long range.
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" Last fall, the Chinese destroyer Lanzhou came within 45 yards (41 meters) of the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur near the Spratly Islands in an encounter the US called "unsafe.
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Last week, the US Navy sailed the guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville near contested islands in the South China Sea, an operation that drew an immediate diplomatic protest from Beijing.
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It pointed to a key component of a Toophan anti-tank guided missile and a small drone aircraft, both of which it said were recovered in Yemen by the Saudis.
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On Saturday, a Japanese tugboat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold in a bay off central Japan, causing minor damage to the guided-missile destroyer, the Navy said.
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The Navy said three United States guided-missile destroyers, two Japanese helicopter carriers and three Japanese destroyers were involved in the search, along with helicopter squadrons and maritime patrol aircraft.
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Two sailors from the ship, a guided-missile destroyer, are dead, and eight more are listed as missing, as divers have begun discovering human remains inside the vessel's mangled decks.
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In January, aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy made their first port visit at Duqm while transiting through the 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
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Most recently, the PLA Navy's second carrier battle group transited the Taiwan Strait, less than a week after the USS Chancellorsville, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, did the same.
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About two months later, the USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyer collided with a Liberian-flagged oil tanker east of the straits of Malacca and Singapore, killing 10 sailors.
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Last week, Russian warplanes flew at an usually low altitude over an American guided missile destroyer in the Black Sea, according to a spokesman for the United States European Command.
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In an incident in June, a Russian Su-24 jet flew within 500 meters (1,640 feet) of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer that was sailing in the Black Sea near Crimea.
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The USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. Defense Department official said.
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In an incident in June, a Russian Su-24 jet flew within 500 meters -- 1,640 feet -- of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer that was sailing in the Black Sea near Crimea.
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The U.S. Navy conducted a similar exercise in October in which the guided-missile destroyer Lassen sailed close to one of China's man-made islands, also drawing a rebuke from Beijing.
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Three days later, February 5, the US and its East Asian ally Japan successfully downed a test medium-range ballistic missile with a new interceptor launched from a guided-missile destroyer.
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The source also noted that a Russian Navy ship was stalking the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, which is the closest U.S. Navy vessel in the region.
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The joint naval drills will last for 10 days in the waters of South Korea, according to a US statement, and feature a US aircraft carrier and two guided-missile destroyers.
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In coming days, three US aircraft carriers, accompanied by guided-missile destroyers and submarines, will be conducting a mock battle in the waters in the region, according to the US Navy.
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Joining the three US carriers and their strike groups were three Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force warships including the helicopter destroyer JS Ise, a guided-missile destroyer and general purpose destroyer.
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USS John S. McCain The USS John S. McCain, a Navy guided-missile destroyer, collided with the oil tanker Alnic MC about 50 nautical miles east of Singapore on August 21.
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The guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell and the USNS Walter S. Diehl "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait Transit" that was "in accordance with international law," US Pacific Fleet spokesman Lt. Cmdr.
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Earlier, the Tasnim news agency quoted Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi as saying Iran had successfully tested a precision-guided missile two weeks ago with a range of 2,000 kms (1,240 miles).
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The amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay was scheduled to visit Hong Kong on August 17 and the guided missile-cruiser USS Lake Erie was scheduled to visit next month.
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More than a century later, a US guided missile destroyer proudly carrying Dewey's name continues to patrol the waters of the Pacific Ocean, projecting US naval power into this sprawling region.
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A U.S. carrier strike group is also headed toward the Korean Peninsula, and a guided missile sub made a port visit in South Korea this week in a show of force.
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The ship is the first Type 055 guided-missile destroyer to be commissioned into the PLA Navy and is one of the most advanced warships of its type in the world.
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While Smith's approach was to carpet bomb EPA science with restrictions, Pruitt's new order is more of a laser-guided missile — hitting just the targets that will help industry avoid accountability.
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A few days earlier, a guided missile cruiser called the USS Princeton had been tracking around eight to ten mysterious flying objects near the Catalina and San Clemente islands in California.
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But in August, while protests were heating up in the city, China rejected scheduled visits by the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay and the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie.
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Navy and Marine divers found the remains of a second sailor who went missing after the USS John S. McCain guided missile destroyer collision earlier this week, the Navy announced Friday.
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That includes a 2016 visit by submarine tender USS Frank Cable and guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain to Cam Ranh Bay, a crucial logistics complex during the Vietnam War.
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In the latest incident, Beijing on Saturday said the U.S. Navy trespassed when the USS Hopper, a guided missile destroyer, sailed within 22 kilometers of Scarborough Shoal earlier in the week.
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By the time the Lincoln and its guided-missile cruiser escort, the Leyte Gulf, return to the US this month, they&aposll have spent nine-and-a-half months at sea.
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AMP also provides two additional capabilities: defeat of enemy dismounts, especially enemy anti-tank guided missile, or ATMG, teams at a distance, and breaching walls in support of dismounted Infantry operations.
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Those include a 2016 visit by submarine tender USS Frank Cable and guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain to Cam Ranh Bay, a crucial logistics complex during the Vietnam War.
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This is particularly true in light of the often discussed threats of Chinese DF-22D "carrier killer," a long range anti-ship guided missile reported to reach ranges greater than 22 miles.
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The Global Times editorial warned that the U.S. is increasing tensions by sailing the Japan-based guided missile destroyers USS Mustin and USS Benfold through the strait that divides Taiwan and China.
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The USS Georgia, an Ohio-class guided missile submarine, struck a channel buoy and grounded as it was returning to port in Kings Bay, Georgia, on November 20043, the Navy said. Capt.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, USS Benfold,, sustained slight damage when a Japanese tug drifted into it during a towing exercise off central Japan on Saturday, the U.S. Navy said.
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The guided-missile destroyer and the merchant vessel collided Monday east of the Malacca Strait, the fourth time a US warship has been involved in an accident in Asian waters this year.
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The guided missile destroyer, USS Stockdale, and the USNS Pecos "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait Transit on November 28 (local time), in accordance with international law," US Pacific Fleet spokesman, Lt. Cmdr.
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Three Chinese vessels, including a guided-missile destroyer warship, arrived in Qatar's capital Doha on Saturday following a visit to the Saudi port city of Jeddah, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
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The Navy is filing negligent homicide charges against the former commanding officers of two guided missile destroyers involved in separate collisions over the summer that killed 85033 sailors, the service announced Tuesday.
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Trump didn't say what US submarine was in position, but the guided-missile submarine USS Michigan, armed with 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, made a port call in Busan, South Korea, last month.
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Two other Navy incidents this year include a May 9 collision between a South Korean fishing boat and the USS Lake Champlain guided-missile cruiser off the Korean Peninsula and a Jan.
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USS Benfold On Saturday, a Japanese tugboat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold in a bay off central Japan, causing minor damage to the guided-missile destroyer, the Navy said.
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A pre-dawn collision between a guided-missile destroyer and a merchant vessel east of Singapore and Malaysia on Monday was the fourth major incident in the U.S. Pacific Fleet this year .
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Railguns have long appeared on Russian, Iranian and U.S. military wish lists as cost-effective weapons that give navies the might of a cannon with the range of a precision-guided missile.
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Two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers are in the Sixth Fleet's area of operations in the Mediterranean Sea and would be able to get within striking range within hours to days.
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Lai Yijun stepped in to take command of the guided-missile frigate Lianyungang during a multilateral live-fire naval exercise in Pakistan in 2007 when the vessel&aposs top officer fell sick.
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The McCain was headed to Singapore for a routine visit when it collided with the Alnic MC, a chemical and oil tanker about three times the size of the guided-missile destroyer.
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The newer Virginia-class attack submarines will feature the Virginia Payload Module, which gives this sub the kind of strike firepower the aging Ohio-class guided-missile subs are capable of delivering.
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The guided-missile destroyer INS Chennai and the patrol vessel INS Sunayna "have been deployed in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf to undertake maritime security operations," an Indian Navy statement said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Friday a Russian destroyer almost collided with one of its guided missile cruisers in the Philippine Sea in an incident it denounced as "unsafe and unprofessional".
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Japan is also working closely in defense issues with Manila and Hanoi, and two of its guided-missile destroyers are currently on a rare visit to Vietnam's strategic base at Cam Ranh Bay.
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Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said no ships from China's military were in the vicinity of the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur when it passed near Triton Island in the Paracel Islands.
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Washington (CNN)The USS Michigan -- a guided-missile submarine -- arrived in South Korea for what a US defense official described as a show of force amid tensions between the US and North Korea.
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An international search-and-rescue operation involving aircraft, divers and vessels is looking for 10 U.S. sailors missing since Monday's collision between the U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a merchant vessel near Singapore.
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Those were not the only mishaps involving U.S. Navy sailors this year, which also saw the guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain collide with a fishing vessel in the Sea of Japan in May.
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The bodies of a number of sailors missing from the collision between USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) and a merchant ship on Saturday were found Sunday in flooded compartments aboard the guided missile destroyer.
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Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi was an al Qaeda operative who the US believes helped orchestrate the October 236, 22018, bombing of the US guided missile destroyer, which killed 17 American sailors.
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The 60- to 70-foot-long fishing vessel collided with the Lake Champlain -- a 568-foot Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser that has been with the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson strike group.
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Another incident in East Asian waters involved a US 3rd Fleet ship: In May, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain was struck by a South Korean fishing boat off the Korean Peninsula.
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Underlining naval tensions, the US this week sent a guided-missile cruiser on the latest "freedom of navigation" exercise in the South China Sea, near the Paracel islands, that are claimed by Beijing.
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Later, a U.S. guided missile cruiser shot down Iran Air flight 85033 over the Persian Gulf killing 290 and claimed that it mistook the sizable civilian plane for a F-14 fighter jet.
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Bryan McGrath, a former naval officer who had commanded a guided-missile destroyer, approached Huntington Ingalls and offered to write a study on a fee-for-service basis as a private industry expert.
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But the shambolic failure of attempts to deliver Brexit has given Mr. Farage another opening, and his newly founded Brexit Party threatens to become a guided missile aimed at Britain's two main parties.
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In 2013, Ensign Brown's daughter and granddaughter were on hand at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath for a ceremony commemorating the beginning of construction of the guided-missile destroyer Thomas J. Hudner.
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"He was able to build relationships and build trust," said Ali Soufan, who, as lead investigator of the bombing of the naval guided-missile destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000, supervised Mr. Fernandez.
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Israel also has accused Iran of planning to build precision-guided missile factories in Lebanon, which is home to the powerful Hezbollah movement, one of the groups fighting in support of Assad in Syria.
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The United States last conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the area in October, when it sailed the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur near the Paracel Islands and within waters claimed by China.
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The findings came out Tuesday, the same day the U.S. Navy sent a guided missile destroyer within 12 miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea where China has built an airstrip.
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Investigative website Disclose reported this week that French arms, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, were being used in the Yemeni war against civilians.
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On Tuesday, China scrambled fighter jets as a U.S. navy guided missile destroyer sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea and denounced the patrol as an illegal threat to peace.
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Washington (CNN)A US guided-missile cruiser was struck by a South Korean fishing boat on Tuesday while the Navy warship was conducting operations in international waters near the Korean Peninsula, the Navy said.
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The 60- to 70-foot-long fishing vessel collided with the USS Lake Champlain -- a 568-foot Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser that has been with the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson strike group.
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"By sending its most advanced guided-missile destroyers, China is expressing its sincerity to Russia and also sends a strong signal to other countries who plan to provoke us," Li is quoted as saying.
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Xavier Martin, Darrold's only child, was one of the seven Navy sailors killed when their warship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, collided with a container ship in the waters off Japan's Izu Peninsula.
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Seventeen sailors were killed this year in two collisions with commercial vessels involving guided-missile destroyers, the Fitzgerald in June off Japan and then the John S. McCain in August as it approached Singapore.
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One of the most confrontational incidents in years occurred on Tuesday about 70 nautical miles off Kaliningrad, where two Russian Su-24 planes buzzed the American guided missile destroyer Donald Cook, simulating an attack.
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The state-run Global Times newspaper said the ship was believed to be the first Type 055 destroyer, which is considered to be a successor class to the smaller Type 052D guided missile destroyers.
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After watching the weapons' launches, Kim said they are "hard to intercept" because of the "low-altitude gliding and leaping flight orbit of the tactical guided missile," according to the Korean Central News Agency.
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Two US guided-missile destroyers, USS Fitzgerald and USS John S McCain, suffered collisions with merchant ships, leaving 17 US sailors dead and the two warships needing hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs.
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"Our will to enhance our defense power in all fields will increase if the pressure mounts on Iran," Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said after unveiling the "fully home-made precision-guided" missile.
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Ten U.S. Navy sailors are still being sought after a U.S.-guided-missile destroyer, the John S. McCain, above, collided with an oil tanker in the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Singapore.
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In October 2015, the Obama administration sent a guided missile destroyer, the Lassen, within territorial waters near Subi Reef, one of several artificial islands that China has built in the disputed Spratly Islands chain.
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The U.S. used the USS Monterey Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers the USS Laboon and USS Higgins and the USS John Warner Virginia-class submarine to fire all Tomahawk missiles.
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U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the guided missile destroyer Forrest Sherman detained a small boat and a detachment of U.S. personnel boarded the vessel, where the missile parts were found.
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The damage to the guided-missile destroyer is so extensive that Navy and Marine Corps divers are using hydraulic cutters to try to enter crushed and flooded berthing compartments where remains have been located.
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The U.S. Navy said in an earlier statement the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain was damaged after it collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC. Reporting by Masayuki Kitano; Editing by Paul Tait
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The guided missile frigate INS Betwa, a 3,850-ton ship more than 125 meters (410 feet) in length, rolled over on a 90-degree angle while being docked, Indian Navy spokesman D.K. Sharma told CNN.
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The leaked report, obtained by Las Vegas&apos KLAS tv station, tells how the USS Princeton, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, had multiple radar contacts with what it dubbed a Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV).
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REPORT: TWO NAVY SEALS EYED IN STRANGULATION OF GREEN BERET IN MALI In late August, another guided-missile destroyer, USS John S. McCain, collided with a merchant vessel, this time an oil tanker near Singapore.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it could not confirm reports that Iran had tested a precision-guided missile two weeks ago but if true such a step would be provocative and destabilizing.
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In May 2016, the Navy sent a guided missile destroyer within 12 miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea, prompting China to dispatch fighter jets and warships to "expel" the American ship.
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Seventeen sailors have been killed this year in two collisions with commercial vessels involving guided-missile destroyers, the Fitzgerald in June off Japan and then the John S. McCain in August as it approached Singapore.
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The first came on May 24, when the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey sailed within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands chain, which lies to the south of the Paracels.
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A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, USS Barry (DDG 52), launching Raytheon-manufactured Tomahawk missiles during the opening phases of the international military intervention that ended in the overthrow of the Libyan government in 2011.
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The Navy Times obtained three command climate surveys featuring hundreds of pages of anonymous comments from sailors revealing widespread morale issues aboard the USS Shiloh, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser based in Yokosuka, Japan.
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That came weeks after an online investigative site published leaked French military intelligence that showed weapons sold to the kingdom, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems, were being used against civilians in Yemen's war.
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The operation that had a guided-missile destroyer sail within those 12 miles was meant to send a signal that the U.S. does not recognize any of the three nations' territorial claims of the island.
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The US' Aegis fleet in the Pacific has been hurt this year by the loss of the guided-missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain, both severely damaged by collisions with merchant vessels.
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In a statement released on Wednesday, the US military announced the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell, and the Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll conducted operations in the South China Sea between January 11 and 16.
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Gschossman said Germany and the Netherlands also plan to jointly develop an air defense system operated directly by their armies to replace the Stinger guided missile, which must be phased out in the next decade.
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The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the transport dock ship Green Bay had requested to visit later this month, while the guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie had requested to visit in September.
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Also on the positive side was last month's transit of the Taiwan Strait by guided missile destroyers USS Mustin and USS Benfold, reminding China that the U.S. remains committed to regional stability and Taiwan's safety.
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In a dramatic test on May 30, 2017, the US military's Missile Defense Agency fired a high-tech guided missile and blasted a long-range ballistic rocket at least 60 miles over the Pacific Ocean.
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The evidence she provided included parts and debris from a short-range ballistic missile, an antitank guided missile, an unmanned aerial vehicle and exploding boat technology that have markings and features indicating origins in Iran.
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Anthony Junco, a spokesman for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, said the ship was the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell, which conducted "a routine Taiwan Strait transit March 25 (local time) in accordance with international law".
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Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on Syria, predominantly targeting the transfer of precision-guided missile technology by Iran-backed groups, which are fighting to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Three U.S. military officials told Reuters the USS Chafee, a guided-missile destroyer, carried out normal maneuvering operations to challenge "excessive maritime claims" in the Paracel archipelago, which is claimed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur was performing a "freedom of navigation" operation on Sunday, sailing close to Chinese-claimed reefs in the Spratly Islands, when it was approached by a Chinese destroyer, the Lanzhou.
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Aucoin's removal comes after a pre-dawn collision between a guided-missile destroyer and a merchant vessel east of Singapore and Malaysia on Monday, the fourth major incident in the U.S. Pacific Fleet this year.
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The trio of ships is led by a Chinese guided-missile destroyer called Hefei – a new type of warship commissioned less than two years ago – and is packed with an array of sophisticated weapons systems.
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Originally, the Navy said the USS Mason guided-missile destroyer was targeted by multiple missiles, which would be significant considering the United States already launched strikes in retaliation for attacks from Iran-backed Houthis last week.
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The images of SU-24 fighter jets off the bow of the American guided missile destroyer USS Porter emerged as the commander of the US military arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, to meet with his Russian counterpart.
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The guided missile destroyers, USS Stethem and USS McCampbell, are equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system, which is able to track 100 missiles simultaneously and fire interceptors to take out an enemy's ballistic projectiles.
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The move comes weeks after an online investigative site published leaked French military intelligence that showed weapons sold to the kingdom, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems, were being used against civilians in Yemen's war.
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The move by ACAT came after online investigative site Disclose published leaked military intelligence showing weapons sold by France to Saudi Arabia, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems, were being used against civilians in Yemen.
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The USS Benfold, a guided-missile destroyer, arrived on Friday in Otaru, Japan, one of five U.S. destroyers equipped with Aegis ballistic missile defense systems that are girding for the potential launch, according to several sources.
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As recently as last week, the US drew the wrath of Chinese defense officials when an American guided-missile destroy sailed through the South China Sea to make a point about unimpeded access in international waters.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur passed near Triton Island in the Paracel Islands, in what the Pentagon said was a challenge to attempts by China, Taiwan and Vietnam to restrict navigation rights and freedoms.
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A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman said, although the ship was not hit.
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Seven sailors are still missing and three injured after the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided early on Saturday morning with a Philippine-flagged container ship south of Tokyo Bay in Japan, the U.S. Navy said.
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The warship, the William P. Lawrence, a guided missile destroyer, ventured into the vicinity of Fiery Cross Reef, a 700-acre artificial island China constructed in the last 18 months on top of two small rocks.
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The Navy has sent the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, transport dock ship USS New York, guided missile destroyer USS Farragut, as well as hundreds more Marines to the islands.
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The measure would provide $85033 billion to buy 11 Navy ships, including three guided missile destroyers, two attack submarines, one frigate, one Ford-class aircraft carrier, two fleet oilers and two towing, salvage and rescue ships.
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Over the weekend, the US Navy sent six guided missile frigates and destroyers out to sea from Naval Station Mayport in Florida, in the hope they can safely ride out the storm from a considerable distance.
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It's avionics package and armament specs — notably including the AIM 120-D AMRAAM radar-guided missile — combined with flight performance defined air superiority and it has yet to meet an enemy capable of bringing it down.
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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea claimed by China as U.S. officials joined trade talks in Beijing to seek a de-escalation in the Sino-U.
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The Chinese ship "conducted a series of increasingly aggressive maneuvers," coming within 45 yards of the bow of the Decatur, a guided-missile cruiser on what the Pentagon described as a routine mission in international waters.
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" The following year, current Democratic presidential candidate and pot legalization foe Joe Biden argued that comparing 1990s weed to that from the 60s was like "comparing buckshot in a shotgun shell to a laser-guided missile.
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Israel and the Iranian-backed Shi'ite Hezbollah are on high alert after drones were used on Sunday to attack what a security official in the region described as a target linked to precision-guided missile projects.
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The damage to the guided-missile destroyer, above, is so extensive that Navy and Marine Corps divers are using hydraulic cutters to try to enter crushed and flooded berthing compartments where some remains have been located.
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Hours after Mr. Kim's warning, the United States conducted what it called a previously planned missile-defense test, intercepting a medium-range ballistic missile fired from a Navy guided-missile destroyer off the coast of Hawaii.
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The episode occurred Sunday when four Iranian fast boats came within 900 yards of the U.S.S. Mahan, a guided missile destroyer that was escorting an amphibious warship with 1,000 Marines on board and a Navy oiler.
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"We will also allege that he has been researching, designing and modeling systems to assist ISIL's efforts to develop their own long-range guided missile capabilities," McCartney said, using another common term to describe Islamic State.
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The guided-missile destroyer and the Alnic MC oil tanker collided about 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 kilometers) from Malaysia's coast at the start of a designated sea lane for ships sailing into the busy Singapore Strait.
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The proof she pointed to included parts and debris from a short-range ballistic missile, an antitank guided missile, an unmanned aerial vehicle and exploding boat technology that have markings and features indicating origins in Iran.
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Although the operation was secretly unfolding for hours before the first impact, it only took minutes from the first to the last detonation from 105 precision-guided missile strikes on three Syrian chemical weapons targets, officials said.
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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea claimed by China as U.S. officials meet their counterparts in Beijing for talks during a truce in a bitter trade war.
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The commanding officer of the USS John S. McCain guided missile destroyer, which collided with a merchant ship near Singapore in August, faces charges of dereliction of duty, hazarding a vessel and negligent homicide, the statement said.
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WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it could not confirm reports that Iran had tested a precision-guided missile two weeks ago but if true such a step would be provocative and destabilizing.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Last week, the Afghan air force dropped its first laser-guided missile on a Taliban compound in Farah, the western Afghan province that has seen increasing fighting since the beginning of the year.
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It comes after seven sailors drowned when water rushed into their sleeping quarters on the USS Fitzgerald, another guided-missile destroyer, which struck a Philippine-registered container ship 64 miles south-west of Yokosuka on June 17th.
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The USS John Paul Jones destroyer tracked the target missile, then launched a Standard Missile-85033 (SM-3) Block IIA guided missile, "but the missile did not intercept the target," according to a statement from the agency.
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Five Japanese Maritime Self Defense force ships were leading the search for the missing US sailors at the site of the collision, joined by another US warship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey, the 93th Fleet said.
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The measure would also provide $85033 billion to buy 11 Navy ships, including three guided missile destroyers, two attack submarines, one frigate, one Ford-class aircraft carrier, two fleet oilers and two towing, salvage and rescue ships.
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The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Donald Cook began moving towards the Black Sea on Saturday, "to conduct maritime security operations and enhance regional maritime stability, combined readiness and naval capability", a U.S. navy statement said. www.navy.mil/index.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French arms including tanks and laser-guided missile systems sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are being used in the Yemeni war against civilians, leaked intelligence published by investigative website Disclose showed.
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China will send the Xining, a guided missile destroyer, to the drills, which will last until Monday, and are meant to deepen cooperation between the three countries' navies, ministry spokesman Wu Qian told a monthly news briefing.
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The formation comprised three guided missile destroyers, three frigates, one supply ship, plus J-15 fighter jets and several ship-borne helicopters, according to a report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo, citing the nation's defence ministry.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea in what China called a "provocation" as U.S. officials joined talks in Beijing during a truce in a bitter trade war.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. Navy and Marine Corps divers on Tuesday found some human remains inside sections of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer that collided with a merchant vessel near Singapore, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said.
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Submarine tender USS Frank Cable and guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain made the visit on Sunday to the deep-water naval base, marking an important step in fast-growing defense ties between the two former enemies.
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The commanding officer and three other officers on the USS Fitzgerald guided missile destroyer, which collided with a Philippine container ship in June, face charges including dereliction of duty, hazarding a vessel and negligent homicide, the Navy said.
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" "Well, no one likes waste, fraud and abuse, but there's not enough waste, fraud and abuse to find in there to make sure that the guided missile cruisers get modernized on time and get back into the fleet.
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In a show of force, the United States has sent the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to nearby waters, where it will join the USS Michigan, a guided missile submarine that docked in South Korea on Tuesday.
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On top of this, the United States Navy said Thursday a U.S.-guided missile destroyer conducted naval drills with Japan, India and the Philippines in a waterway claimed by China in the contested South China Sea, per Reuters.
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U.S. defense officials said the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur challenged "excessive maritime claims" in a patrol near the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors.
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Meantime, Harris also said the USS Michigan, a guided-missile nuclear submarine, is now in South Korea's Busan port and will be there for a few days and then will leave port and be operating within the area.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is aware of Russian planes flying dangerously close to a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday and continues to be concerned about such behavior, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Clinton after complaining about the Navy's decision to name a guided-missile destroyer after former Senator Carl M. Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, who was chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee but never served in the military.
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India, which has been at odds with China over their disputed land border and Beijing's support for India's regional rival Pakistan, has sent stealth guided-missile destroyer the "INS Kolkata" to take part, along with a supply ship.
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The Navy needs the damaged guided-missile destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald back in the Pacific "as quick as we can," requiring an estimated $600 million not included in the upcoming fiscal 85033 defense budget.
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The Navy needs the damaged guided-missile destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald back in the Pacific "as quick as we can," requiring an estimated $600 million not included in the upcoming fiscal 2018 defense budget.
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On Monday, guided-missile destroyer McCain collided with a merchant vessel along the Malacca Strait, triggering a series of questions from the public as this is not the first time in a short while, that a collision occurred.
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The McCain, a guided missile destroyer, was about five miles off the coast of Malaysia and headed for routine port visit to Singapore when it collided with the Liberian-flagged Alnic MC, 600-foot oil and chemical tanker.
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The U.S. Navy said on Thursday human remains found by Malaysia were not one of its 10 sailors missing after a collision between one of its guided-missile destroyers and a merchant vessel east of Singapore this week.
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YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) - The USS Milius, one of the U.S. Navy's most advanced guided missile destroyers, arrived in Japan on Tuesday to reinforce defenses against any ballistic missile attacks by North Korea, or anyone else in East Asia.
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US stealth jets and bombers, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, guided-missile destroyers, and even tactical nuclear weapons could deploy to South Korea and Japan on a more permanent basis to step up the US presence in the area.
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Two of the incidents - collisions with commercial vessels involving guided-missile destroyers, the Fitzgerald in June off Japan and then the John S. McCain in August as it approached Singapore - have left a total of 17 sailors dead.
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Hamas and other armed factions had fired more than 400 rockets or mortar bombs across the fenced border after carrying out a guided-missile attack on Monday on a bus that wounded an Israeli soldier, the military said.
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Monday morning's collision occurred in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes when the guided missile destroyer collided with Alnic MC. Pictures show the McCain with a heavily dented hull, but the vessel reached port under its own power.
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The modern battlefield has become littered with a host of shoulder-fired and ground-based anti-tank systems from BGM-71 TOWs to Russian Kornet portable guided missile systems, Yossi Gez the vice president of marketing for Mistral Inc.
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The United States has been challenging what it considers China's excessive maritime claims by sailing warships close to China's artificial islands, most recently on Tuesday, when a guided missile destroyer passed within 12 nautical miles of Fiery Cross Reef.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur challenged "excessive maritime claims" near the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, allegedly came within 200 to 230 feet of a Russian frigate's left side and then crossed in front of the bow at a distance of about 600 feet, according to the statement.
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In August the USS John S.McCain guided missile destroyer was struck by a merchant ship near Singapore, while its sister ship, the Fitzgerald, almost sank off the coast of Japan in June after colliding with a Philippine container ship.
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Multiple U.S. and Japanese investigations are under way into how the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the much larger ACX Crystal container ship collided in clear weather south of Tokyo Bay in the early hours of June 17.
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The Russian defense ministry alleges the USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, came within 200 to 230 feet of a Russian frigate's left side and then crossed in front of the bow at a distance of about 600 feet.
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The USS Farragut, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, "sounded five short blasts, the international maritime signal for danger of a collision, and requested the Russian ship alter course in accordance with international rules of the road," Cmdr.
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Multiple U.S. and Japanese investigations are under way into how the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the much larger ACX Crystal container ship collided in clear weather south of Tokyo Bay in the early hours of June 23.
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In another show of its unwavering views, the defense ministry announced that a new guided missile destroyer was formally commissioned at a naval base on the southern island province of Hainan, which has responsibility for the South China Sea.
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B.F. Skinner, the father of radical behaviorism, attempted to devise a pigeon-guided missile during World War II. Dubbed "Project Pigeon," the program sought to harness positive reinforcement techniques in order to train birds to peck at images of military targets.
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Scaffolding covered the mast of the guided-missile destroyer, which is undergoing extensive repairs after a deadly collision, one of two last year that led to charges against senior ship officers and a highly critical review of Navy procedures and policies.
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The Global Times said in an editorial that the U.S. was adding to tensions by sailing the Japan-based guided missile destroyers USS Mustin and USS Benfold through the 160-kilometer (100-mile)-wide strait that divides Taiwan from mainland China.
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BEIJING, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea claimed by China as U.S. officials meet their counterparts in Beijing for talks during a truce in a bitter trade war.
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A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States will likely bar Japanese investigators from interviewing USS Fitzgerald crew manning the guided missile destroyer when it was struck by a cargo ship in Japanese waters killing seven American sailors, a U.S. navy official said.
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"This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail, is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation," said United States Postmaster General Arthur E Summerfield.
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Multiple U.S. and Japanese investigations are under way into how the USS Fitzgerald, a guided missile destroyer, and the much larger ACX Crystal container ship collided in clear weather south of Tokyo Bay in the early hours of June 17.
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QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - China showed off the first of its new generation of guided missile destroyers on Tuesday as President Xi Jinping reviewed a major naval parade through mist and rain to mark 70 years since the founding of China's navy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, the U.S. military said, with one official describing them as one of the most aggressive interactions in recent memory.
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For a sense of how these accidents happen, what they mean for the military, and how they might impact a volatile region, I reached out to Bryan McGrath, a retired US naval officer who once commanded a guided-missile destroyer.
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Iran has engaged in a number of provocations in recent months, including harassment of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) in April and close encounters with the missile-range instrumentation ship USNS Invincible (T AGM 24).
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Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers are multi-role warships that run heavily armed with 122 vertical-launch-system (VLS) cells capable of carrying everything from Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles to surface-to-air missiles and anti-submarine-warfare rockets.
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The deployment of the DF-241 ballistic missiles in China's remote northwest plateau, originally announced Tuesday on China Central Television, follows a mission from the US guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell, which steamed close to the Paracel Islands, the previous day.
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Russia's Pacific Fleet said that the USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser, had come within just 50 meters (165 feet) of the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov which was forced to take emergency action to avoid a collision, Russian news agencies reported.
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Few images could have been as damaging to that reputation as that of the guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain limping into Singapore on Monday after a predawn collision with an oil tanker punched a hole in the warship's hull.
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Bennett was relieved of his post as commander of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, responsible for the Navy's forward-deployed destroyer squadron and commanding the readiness of eight guided-missile destroyers as well as destroyers deployed to the Seventh Fleet area.
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The United States also got into the act, announcing Wednesday morning that guided missiles launched from the guided-missile destroyer John Paul Jones had successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a test off the coast of Hawaii.
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The 610-foot, 15,000-ton USS Michael Monsoor is the U.S. Navy's second Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer, named in tribute of Monsoor, who was killed in 2006 during the Battle for Ramadi when he leaped on a grenade to protect his comrades.
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" It says China's total submarine force "will likely grow to between 65 and 70 submarines by 2020" and that China will field a new guided-missile nuclear attack submarine "by the mid-2020s" providing Beijing with "a more clandestine land-attack option.
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The two guided-missile destroyers USS Preble and USS Chung Hoon "sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Gaven and Johnson Reefs in order to challenge excessive maritime claims and preserve access to the waterways as governed by international law," US Navy Cdr.
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An accident involving the USS Lake Champlain, a guided-missile cruiser in the Sea of Japan on May 9th, was less serious: the South Korean fishing boat it hit did little damage to the warship, and nobody on either vessel was hurt.
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On April 9, just days after the last North Korean missile test, the Trump administration announced it was sending the 97,000-ton USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, along with a guided-missile cruiser and two destroyers, to the waters off the Korean Peninsula.
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The Houthis, allies of Iran who drove the Western- and Saudi Arabia-backed President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi from the capital in 2014, have denied firing at the USS Mason guided missile destroyer and the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport dock.
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SINGAPORE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Tuesday divers have begun searching in the flooded compartments of a U.S. warship for 10 U.S. sailors missing since the guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant vessel in waters near Singapore and Malaysia.
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On Sunday, in a move that could further strain US-China relations, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed within 12 miles of a Chinese-claimed island in the South China Sea in a "freedom of navigation" exercise, US defense officials said.
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Any determination that the USS Mason guided-missile destroyer was targeted on Saturday could have military repercussions, since the United States has threatened to retaliate again should its ships come under fire from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi fighters.
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The aircraft took a flight path not previously flown to regions they had never previously operated in, and coordinated with fighter jets, alert aircraft and guided missile forces, spokesman Shen Jinke said, according to a post on the Air Force's official microblog.
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The USS Chafee, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, did not come within 12 miles of any individual islands -- a distance China considers territorial waters -- but did enter the "straight baseline" that Beijing claims around the island group, according to the officials.
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The 71-page report — which dissects the separate accidents involving the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain earlier this year in the Pacific — found that performance and training mistakes led to the collisions between the guided-missile destroyers and commercial ships.
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The USS Vincennes was a guided missile cruiser nicknamed Robocruiser in reference to its Aegis system, and on July 23.0, 229, in the midst of a skirmish with Iranian gunboats during the Iran-Iraq war, its radar system warned of an incoming aircraft.
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The results were deadly: Thirty-seven American sailors aboard a Navy frigate died when it came under attack by an Iraqi warplane, and 6553 people on an Iranian commercial airliner were killed when it was attacked by an American guided missile cruiser.
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It follows four incidents since January in the western Pacific involving warships assigned to the Seventh Fleet, including the USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyer colliding last month with an oil tanker near Singapore, resulting in the loss of 10 sailors.
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The U.S. Pacific Command said on its website that two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew a 10-hour training mission from Guam over the South China Sea on Thursday, in conjunction with the Navy's USS Sterett guided-missile destroyer.
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Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from Iran to Dubai on July 83, 1988.
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On the Navy side, up to six conceptual design contracts could be awarded for the so-called FFG(X), or guided-missile frigate replacement program, by the end of the first quarter, and the service is expected to pick one vendor in 2350.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The collision of the USS John S.McCain guided missile destroyer with a merchant ship near Singapore in August that killed 10 sailors was preventable, the U.S. Navy said after it relieved the warship's commander and his deputy from their duties.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship.
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On Saturday the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney joined the USS Ross in the Black Sea to "conduct maritime security operations," according to a statement from the US Navy's 6th Fleet, which oversees US naval operations in the region.
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The latest incident left the guided-missile destroyer, USS John McCain limping into port in Singapore on Monday with a gaping gash in its hull following a pre-dawn collision with an oil tanker that left 10 of its crew feared dead.
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Two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near the USS Donald Cook, a guided missile destroyer, in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, the US military said, with one official describing them as one of the most aggressive interactions between the two countries in recent memory.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S Navy and Marine Corps divers have recovered and identified a second body in the search for ten sailors missing after a collision between a guided-missile destroyer and merchant vessel near Singapore earlier this week, the U.S. Navy said on Friday.
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The ship, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, also had a Polish helicopter on board as part of routine training, according to the official, leading to some speculation in military circles that the Russians were also "sending a message to Poland," the official said.
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Hitting the ball sets it on fire and turns it into a sort of guided missile; you can then use your controller to move the ball around, both to choose what you want to break and to position yourself to sink the final putt.
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Two U.S. guided-missile destroyers traveled within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson Reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, a move that could anger Beijing at a time of tense relations between the world's two biggest economies.
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The collision between the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the Philippine-registered ACX Crystal on June 17 resulted in the greatest loss of life on a U.S. Navy vessel since the USS Cole was bombed by Islamist militants in Yemen's Aden harbor in 2000.
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The March 2900 incident — one of the deadliest civilian casualty events since the beginning of the Iraq War in 220006 — occurred when a U.S. military warplane dropped a GBU-2202 precision-guided missile on two ISIS snipers firing on Iraqi forces, Air Force Brig. Gen.
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France is also developing on its own a successor to the MILAN anti-tank guided missile it built with Germany in the 1970s, and French truck maker Arquus has begun marketing a truck for export to the Middle East as "German-free," sources said.
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The Russian and Chinese defense ministries have confirmed the participation of a Chinese guided-missile destroyer in the week-long war games, the first-ever joint operation by the two powers in European waters, according to a report on the People's Liberation Army's official website.
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MOSCOW, April 14 (Reuters) - The crews of the Russian Su-24 bombers which flew near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday respected all safety rules, Interfax news agency quoted Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying on Thursday.
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The March 2628 incident -- one of the deadliest civilian casualty events since the beginning of the Iraq War in 28503 -- occurred when a U.S. military warplane dropped a GBU-22019 precision-guided missile on two ISIS snipers firing on Iraqi forces, Air Force Brig. Gen.
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On Sunday afternoon, he flew to this sprawling naval air station near the mouth of the Mediterranean to tour the Ross, one of four guided-missile destroyers that patrol from the Baltic to the Black Sea, potent symbols of America's military presence in Europe.
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Kyle Raines, a spokesman for United States Central Command, said Revolutionary Guard patrol boats had repeatedly ignored warnings from two guided missile destroyers, the Nitze and the Mason, operating in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit route to the Persian Gulf.
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France is also developing on its own a successor to the MILAN anti-tank guided missile it built with Germany in the 1970s, and French truck maker Arquus has begun marketing a truck for export to the Middle East as "German-free", sources said.
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In the opening scenes of the "Strong Military" documentary, Xi is shown boarding the guided missile destroyer Haikou at Shekou port on December 8, 2012, and sailing into the South China Sea for the first time since becoming party and military chief that year.
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Last month, as Mr. McCain neared the end of his monthslong battle with brain cancer, the Navy expanded the name of the guided missile destroyer John S. McCain to formally include the senator, who joined his father and grandfather, both Navy admirals and Annapolis graduates.
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US Military Sealift Command cargo ship USNS Benavidez and US-flagged merchant vessels MV Resolve and MV Patriot set off across the Atlantic for Europe last month, escorted by guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf through a path made by the Eisenhower carrier strike group.
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Two U.S. guided-missile destroyers travelled within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson Reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, a move that could anger Beijing at a time of tense relations between the world's two biggest economies.
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Off the Singapore coast, search teams scrambled on Monday to determine the fate of the missing sailors from the John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer that had been passing east of the Strait of Malacca en route to a port visit in Singapore.
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Japanese and US planes and ships, including a US guided-missile destroyer, were continuing to search for the pilot, the Japanese Ministry of Defense said, adding that the unnamed aviator was a male in his 40s with more than 3,200 hours of flying experience.
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The weapon was most likely a short-range guided missile, like the Israeli-made Spike missile, which flies low and usually covers only a very short distance, said Shin Jong-woo, a weapons expert at Korea Defense Forum, a Seoul-based network of military analysts.
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Vice Admiral Phillip Sawyer's comments come after a U.S. guided-missile destroyer was slightly damaged at the weekend when a Japanese tug drifted into it during a towing exercise off central Japan, the latest incident in the Pacific this year involving ships from the fleet.
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The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Chafee, a guided-missile destroyer, carried out normal maneuvering operations that challenged "excessive maritime claims" near the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors.
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The guided-missile destroyer had sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea earlier this month, in the latest freedom of navigation operation to counter what the United States sees as China's efforts to control the waters.
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And the arrival late last month of the Vinson strike group, which also includes guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy, was described as a show of force in advance of a long-anticipated sixth nuclear test from the North Korean government.
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The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, guided-missile destroyer USS Cole and dry cargo ship USNS Washington Chambers were traveling through the strait when an Iranian vessel approached the US ships, coming within 800 yards of the Bataan, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Cdr.
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Petty Officer Peter Mims, a gas turbine systems technician on the USS Shiloh Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, vanished on June 8 while the Shiloh was conducting routine operations 180 miles east of Okinawa, Japan as part of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group.
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"They make a competitive case to be the Pacific region's leading modern multi-role heavy surface combatant, while providing an important platform for new South Korean weapons," Defense Industry Daily wrote of the Sejong the Great destroyer, which are even bigger than US guided-missile cruisers.
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A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer the USS McCampbell, which is based in Japan, and a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Argyll, which is on a tour of Asia, conducted communication drills and other exercises "to address common security priorities", the U.S. Navy said in a press release.
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The KCNA report listed a string of perceived US provocations -- including a litany of bombastic threats from President Trump, recent deployments of a US guided-missile submarine and aircraft carrier to the region, and a new round of "high intensity" US and South Korea joint naval drills.
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In all, the seapower subcommittee's portion of the bill would fund 11 new ships, including three Virginia-class submarines, three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, one guided-missile frigate, one Amphibious Transport Dock ship, one T-AO 205 oiler and two T-ATS towing, salvage and rescue ships.
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At sea, the US has two Arleigh-Berke class guided-missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook and the USS Winston S. Churchill, which hold up to 96 Tomahawk cruise missiles, the very same type the US used in its last strike on Syria in April 2017.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - In fresh show of naval force in the contested South China Sea, a U.S. guided missile destroyer conducted drills with a Japanese aircraft carrier, two Indian naval ships and a Philippine patrol vessel in the waterway claimed by China, the U.S. Navy said on Thursday.
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After a US Navy guided-missile destroyer steamed near Chinese-claimed islands in the South China Sea earlier this month -- an action Beijing claimed violated China's territorial waters -- China said it had deployed the missile to its remote desert and within range of the South China Sea.
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Seaman Marcus White, from San Diego, stands watch in the Philippine Sea on June 30, 2019 as aft lookout aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of being the mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in a Yemeni port to go on trial before an American war crimes military tribunal.
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Also in the Lincoln strike group are the cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and the guided-missile destroyers USS Bainbridge, USS Mason and USS Nitze, according to a Navy release from early April, which also said a Spanish destroyer would be operating with the strike group for its entire deployment.
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While specifications for the aircraft are hard to come by, the smaller CH-3 can reportedly carry at least 130 pounds of sensors or weapons, including at least one AR-1 laser-guided missile — the rough Chinese equivalent of the AGM-114 Hell Fire missile carried by U.S. drones.
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Washington (CNN)The US Navy sailed the guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville near contested islands in the South China Sea Monday, less than a week before US and Chinese leaders are due to meet for a high-stakes summit at the G20 in Argentina, two US officials told CNN.
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On Wednesday, the US Navy sailed the guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell near contested waters in the Sea of Japan, an action aimed at challenging Russian territorial claims Additionally, CNN reported on Wednesday the US has begun making the necessary preparations to sail a warship into the Black Sea.
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Ship-killer ballistic missiles After the US Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer near Chinese-claimed islands in the South China Sea on January 10, Chinese state media said the People's Liberation Army had deployed DF-26 ballistic missiles "capable of targeting medium and large ships" at sea.
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"When you try to make a rocket-boosted projectile that can steer itself to a target, you basically have built a guided missile," said Tony DiGiulian, a retired engineer who has studied all these weapons and runs NavWeaps, a website on the subject of naval weapons and technology.
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Related: China Is Pissed About the Pentagon's New Report on Its Military Activity The Pentagon report came just days after China scrambled fighter jets and sent three warships to shadow a US navy guided-missile destroyer that sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea.
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The Hill's Ellen Mitchell reports: The 2628-page report -- which dissects the separate accidents involving the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain earlier this year in the Pacific -- found that performance and training mistakes led to the collisions between the guided-missile destroyers and commercial ships.
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I started physically cringing as I tried to nurse my already wounded car into a hidden route through Paradise City and saw one of the black Hunters barreling up the street like a guided missile, moving with that unnatural quickness they all have when once they get your scent.
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The Virginia Payload Module (VPM), a weapons system intended to give the late-block Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) a bit more punch, was initially viewed solely in the context of giving these submarines the kind of firepower seen on the aging Ohio-class guided-missile submarines (SSGNs).
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"By sending its most advanced guided-missile destroyers, China is expressing its sincerity to Russia and also sends a strong signal to other countries who plan to provoke us," Beijing-based naval expert Li Jie said quoted as saying in a report in the state-run Global Times.
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If one Mayo Clinic study was a bombshell, this 2015 Boston University study is a guided missile: It finds that aging players who began playing full-pads tackle football before age 12 "performed significantly worse" on tests of mental acuity than those who did not don helmets until after age 12.
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Coming just days after Chinese fighter jets were scrambled in response to the U.S. Navy sending a guided missile destroyer within 12 miles of a disputed island, the report also said that China demonstrated a willingness to tolerate higher levels of tension in pursuit of its maritime sovereignty claims last year.
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Mention in the Combat Operations category: A Sailor assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) signals to an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Grandmasters of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46 to ask permission to remove auxiliary power from the helicopter during flight quarters.
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Washington (CNN)Five of the seven Navy sailors who died aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a cargo ship off the east coast of Japan may have been almost instantly "incapacitated" and died quickly, according to a preliminary Navy analysis, a defense official told CNN.
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Next month, the remarkable legacy of United States Navy reformer Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. will be honored when the Navy commissions the USS ZUMWALT (DDG 6900), a guided missile destroyer and the first ship to be named for the late admiral who bucked conventional wisdom to modernize the Navy.
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The drills, described as a maritime counter special operations exercise by the US Navy's 7th Fleet, will include the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, two guided-missile destroyers, units from the South Korean air force and navy, and the US Army and US Air Force, according to a US statement.
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Iran also has handed off advanced weapons like the Noor anti-ship missile to various rebel and terrorist groups — and some of those missiles were subsequently used in attacks, notably against an Israeli corvette in 2006 and multiple attacks on the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) last year.
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Two US officials told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur sailed within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson reefs in the Spratly Islands as part of what the US Navy calls "freedom of navigation operations," which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer the USS McCampbell, which is based in Japan, and a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Argyll, which is on a tour of Asia, conducted communication drills and other exercises from Friday to Wednesday "to address common security priorities", the U.S. Navy said in a press release.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation was launched Monday to find 10 U.S. sailors gone missing after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker three times its size at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca – one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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Vice Admiral James Foggo, who heads the U.S. Navy's fleet in Europe and oversaw the annual NATO exercise that just ended in the Baltic Sea, told Reuters he was braced for incidents such as the one last April when two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passed near a U.S. guided missile destroyer.
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Drones have become critical to the military's effort to combat terrorist activity globally and, in theory, this new technology would allow surveillance flights and drone strikes to be launched globally from the hundreds of existing "small-deck naval maritime vessels," which include guided-missile destroyers and littoral combat ships, according to Northrop Grumman.
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The Florida is a nuclear-powered submarine converted from use as a nuclear missile sub to one of the US's few guided missile submarines; it carries 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and is almost ideally suited for the task of blowing apart an enemy air-defense network in the opening hours of a war.
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The International Institute for Strategic Studies points out that Seoul has procured or will get advanced weaponry; these include cruise missiles for its F-15 fighters, a fleet of F-35 stealth fighters, new submarines and more Sejong the Great-class guided-missile destroyers, already considered among the world's most-advanced warships.
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A large-scale search and rescue operation was launched Monday, in an attempt to find ten US sailors missing after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker three times its size at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca—one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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Two US defense officials told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins and the cruiser USS Antietam sailed within 12 miles of four of the Paracel Islands in what the US Navy calls a "freedom of navigation operation," which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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A US official told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins and the cruiser USS Antietam sailed within 12 miles of four of the Paracel Islands in its what the US Navy calls a "freedom of navigation operation" (FONOP), which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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The destroyer, which will reportedly be equipped with 100 vertical guided missile tubes and feature stealth characteristics, is roughly equivalent in size to the Arleigh Burke–class of destroyers currently operated by the U.S. Navy, which includes the U.S.S. Fitzgerald, the ship that collided with a cargo vessel last week off the coast of Japan.
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All that being said, Schuster said it wouldn't be surprising to see some US assets moving nearer to the Korean Peninsula in the next few days, maybe a carrier group into waters close to Japan, another guided-missile submarine port call in South Korea, or more US Air Force bombers moving to Guam or Okinawa.
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The exercise will take place in April and May, and to get some of those soldiers and their gear to Europe, the US Military Sealift Command cargo ship USNS Benavidez, US-flagged merchant vehicle carriers MV Resolve and MV Patriot, are already sailing across the Atlantic, escorted by guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf.
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Those notable incidents include a 2004 incident involving a guided missile cruiser that the New York Times reported "had been tracking mysterious aircraft" for weeks, with two F/A-18 pilots sent to investigate reporting a sighting of "an aircraft of some kind—whitish — that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape" hovering over the ocean.
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Already crippled as a result of the June 17 collision that killed seven US sailors, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer was headed to Mississippi for repairs but was forced to return to its home port in Yokosuka, Japan, when it sustained additional damage in an incident involving a heavy lift transport vessel called the Transshelf.
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The squadrons and staff of CVW 3 are part of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 10, also known as the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CSG, which includes Ike, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers USS Monterey (CG 61), USS San Jacinto (CG 56), and USS Vella Gulf (CG 72); and the ships and staff of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 26.
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Just two days after the three carriers -- the USS Ronald Reagan, USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz, and their multi-ship strike groups -- wrapped up four days of war games off Korea, the USS Ronald Reagan, with its air wing and three guided-missile destroyers, began a 20113-day exercise with Japanese naval units off Okinawa.
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Because the Navy designed a lot of versatility in the platform, the Block V will act as a Swiss Army knife for undersea warfare, taking on a range of missions that traditionally have gone to the retiring guided-missile submarines, or SSGNs, said Bryan Clark, a retired submarine officer and analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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The Russian ship's presence off the US coast comes as the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer the USS Ross visited Constanta, Romania, Monday for what the Navy called "a scheduled port visit," part of the US effort to bolster its presence in the Black Sea and support regional partners such as NATO ally Romania.
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