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The new approach combines MH-60 Romeo helicopters the Navy currently uses with the MQ-8 Fire Scout, a Northrop Grumman- built drone that looks and launches like a helicopter. The Navy has been testing the Fire Scout since 2007 and deploying it since 2009, using it for counter-narcotics operations and in Afghanistan.
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This comes after a Pentagon spokesperson said on Wednesday that the Pentagon is expected to clear Apple Inc, Samsung and BlackBerry mobile devices for use on Defense Department networks in the next few weeks. The Pentagon unveiled a plan in February aimed at giving the military services a much broader range of choices among mobile devices.
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This comes after a Pentagon spokesperson said on Wednesday that the Pentagon is expected to clear Apple Inc, Samsung and BlackBerry mobile devices for use on Defense Department networks in the next few weeks. The Pentagon unveiled a plan in February aimed at giving the military services a much broader range of choices among mobile devices.
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*Canberra reassesses military in light of U.S. pivot By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Rob Taylor. "Australia, Norway, the Netherlands-- it's all good news for the F-35 program," said a U.S. defense official, although he added that U.S. budget cuts could still pare down Washington's order of 29 jets in fiscal 2013, which ends on Sept. 30.
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*Japan's PM Abe seeking lower hurdle to revise constitution. TOKYO, May 2- Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan's constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War Two, to formalise the country's right to have a military- but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.
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TOKYO, May 2- Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan's constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War Two, to formalise the country's right to have a military- but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.
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"There's no reason we have to spend on defense at the rates we've had," said Richard Haass, Council On Foreign Relations president, providing insight on how to fix the nation's growing debt burden.
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*Violent clashes in Guinea over delayed election. FRIA, Guinea, May 1- Failure by Guinea's politicians to reach agreement for a long-delayed legislative poll is stirring up tribal violence, jeopardising economic gains and raising fears that the military could once again step in.
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OTTAWA, April 30- Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay admitted on Tuesday his department has failed for years to combat the risk of security leaks from contract workers who are not being screened properly.
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*UK calls on Europe to pool defence efforts. LONDON, April 30- Europe may be struggling economically but its armed forces should band together to make up for expected declines in defence spending by the United States, British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is expected to say this week.
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OTTAWA, April 30- Canada's defense ministry and other key departments are vulnerable to security leaks because they do an inadequate job of screening contract workers, Parliament's official watchdog said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, April 29- The U.S. Army will hold a flight demonstration on Tuesday of a newly upgraded version of the Vietnam- era OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter, an Army- led initiative that officials say will save $600 million in coming years.
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*Hollande says White Paper ensures France's independence. PARIS, April 29- France will keep its defence budget at the same level for the next six years after the government decided proposed cuts would hamper its ability to mount military operations such as its intervention in Mali.
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CHICAGO, April 29- Two navigation locks on the Mississippi River reopened during the weekend as receding water allowed for barge navigation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday. The Corps closed Lock 24 near Clarksville, Missouri, and Lock 25 near Winfield, Missouri, on April 20 as river levels surged following heavy rains across the U.S.
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*Hollande says White Paper ensures France's independence. PARIS, April 29- France will keep its defence budget at the same level for the next six years after the government decided that proposed cuts would hamper its ability to mount military operations such as its intervention in Mali.
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DUBAI/ WASHINGTON, April 29- Washington is signalling its military commitment to its Gulf Arab allies at a time of unfamiliar strain in their decades old partnership.
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PARIS, April 29- France will keep its defence budget stable over the next six years, after the army and lawmakers expressed concern at proposed cuts, and cut 34,000 defence ministry jobs, a strategic review showed on Monday. The review comes at a sensitive time for France, a permanent U.N. Security Council member and nuclear power.
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PARIS, April 29- France will keep its defence budget broadly stable for the next five years, after meeting stiff resistance from lawmakers and the army to proposed cuts, although the flat budget will mean 34,000 job losses by 2019..
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* "No more Mali" if France's military budget cut, army says. CANJUERS ARMY BASE, DRAGUIGNAN, France, April 28- E xplosions echo through a valley in southern France, sending up plumes of smoke as four Caesar self-propelled guns fire at distant targets in drills that mirror operations in Mali.
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BEIJING, April 28- China's new leadership is seeking to dismantle a system of privilege which has allowed the drivers of military vehicles to do as they please on the roads. The People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department began supervising the removal of current military licence plates that will expire on Tuesday, the PLA Daily newspaper reported.