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Government, China envoy discuss arms maintenance depot Government, China envoy discuss arms maintenance depot THAILAND: Thailand and China discussed a proposal to develop an arms maintenance depot in the country during a meeting at Government House yesterday (Mar 16). Wednesday 17 March 2021, 10:27AM Defence permanent secretary Nat Intaracharoen met the Chinese military attache in Thailand, Wu Xiaoyi, at Government House in Bangkok yesterday. Photo: supplied. Defence permanent secretary Nat Intaracharoen met the Chinese military attache in Thailand, Wu Xiaoyi to discuss China’s offer to dev...

The F/A-18C Hornet Has Been Retired Advertisement The fighter jet F/A-18C Hornet in abundance on the decks of aircraft carriers has left the game for good. The most used fighter aircraft of the Marine Corps ‘Death Rattlers’ squadron made the last of its run, and now it has reached the end of its service after being replaced with F-35B Joint Strike Fighter.  The famous VMFA-323 Marine Corps fighter attack squadron has returned from its deployment on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. The squadron spent ten months at sea, which is considered a greater span spent together than usual due to tw...

Is it time for medium aircraft carriers?  Here's What You Need to Remember: The story isn’t over. The costs of the new Ford-class carriers have even seapower advocates as Sen. John McCain searching for alternatives: in January 2017, the Arizona senator released a white paper, “Restoring American Power,” that called for a “high/low mix” of aircraft carriers, possibly involving a variant of the America-class amphibious transport equipped with the short-takeoff and vertical-landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter. As long as the United States buys aircraft carriers, the high/l...

The F-35, the Covid stimulus bill, and Congress's unbalanced priorities America's spending priorities are as broken as this dumb fighter jet. I absolutely cannot with this plane.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images March 8, 2021, 10:36 AM UTC Is it weird to hate a plane? I don't mean in the flying or air travel sense; I mean a The F-35 is meant to be the United States' go-to fighter plane for the next three decades at least. In reality, it's a money pit. It is the very definition of a boondoggle. And in the almost 20 years since the Pentagon first signed a contract to buy F-35s from Lockheed Ma...

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