Huge carriers ordered for navy
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Defence Secretary Des Browne details a Â£3.8bn contract for two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers.
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Korean Air Lines, South KoreaÂs biggest carrier, ordered 25 Boeing planes in its largest deal ever as it seeks to benefit from rising demand for passenger and cargo flights. The carrier ordered 15 short- and long-range passenger aircraft and 10 freighters, which it will begin receiving in 2009, it said. The airline said the order was valued at as much as $5.5 billion at list prices.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The United States will  dispatch up to 1,500 marines and a mini aircraft carrier  carrying some 20 helicopters to Sri Lanka to assist in relief  and reconstruction, a senior U.S. military officer said on  Saturday.
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The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy&#39;s 12 aircraft carriers, buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps and delay the development of a costly Army
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- U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co.  confirmed an order for 27 Boeing 767-300 Freighters from package delivery company United Parcel Service Inc. .
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One of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian relief efforts came to life yesterday as warships, helicopters, search aircraft, transport planes and refrigerated containers
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If plans by officials at the Navy and EDS work out, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet could soon become one of the largest systems using voice-over-IP technology in the world.
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US Navy AZ2 (Aviation Admin. Man 2nd class) Marco Moreno, right, from Ontario CA, and US Navy Sgt Edward Brewer, center, from Baytown, TX wait to be served turkey by catering contractor Daniel Decrvez, left
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MOSCOW, Feb. 12 -- A long-range Russian bomber buzzed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Pacific Ocean last weekend, while a second bomber circled about 50 miles away, U.S. officials said. The Nimitz scrambled fighter jets to intercept the Russian warplanes.
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The historic aircraft carrier USS Intrepid is fresh from a body scrub and makeover, including a stem-to-stern painting with 7,000 gallons of traditional naval haze-gray &#151; enough to cover about 400 large houses.
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One of the biggest U.S. military disaster relief missions in history kicked into high gear Saturday as an aircraft carrier battle group arrived off the shores of tsunami-battered Sumatra and began launching helicopters laden with supplies.
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WASHINGTON -- Lockheed Martin will build the new presidential helicopter fleet, the Navy said yesterday, ending a fierce competition that had political and international overtones.
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The biggest wireless service provider keeps getting bigger
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Nextel Communications to supply U.S.-based U.S. Navy personnel with cell phones, voice minutes and wireless data plans.
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: A US carrier battle group steamed toward Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island Friday to spearhead an unprecedented multinational military effort to assist the survivors of last weekend&#39;s quake and tsunamis.
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By From Our Press Services  SAN DIEGO - Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday.
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