The US Navy's Super Hornets are having trouble keeping up with the rest of the military's fighter jets

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from USS Abraham Lincoln in February 2012.

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NATO's newest member means Russia's 'unsinkable aircraft carrier' will be even more isolated

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Russian warships at anchor before a Navy Day parade in Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad region in July 2022.

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Russian jets, some flown by Wagner mercenaries, are making risky attacks to test Ukraine's defenses around Bakhmut

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A Ukrainian jet launches flares over Bakhmut in October.

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The Russian air force's struggles in Ukraine reveal glaring problems in now Moscow trains its pilots

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A Russian pilot at Kubinka military training ground in Moscow in August.

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Moscow is trying to play it cool, but its military moves hint at growing concern over NATO's newest member

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A border guard walks along a fence marking the boundary between Finland and Russia near Imatra, Finland in November 2022.

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Wagner Group mercenaries are getting a lot more help from Russia's military than Prigozhin would like you to think

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary force, speaks in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine in this still image from an undated video released on March 3, 2023.
Yevgeny Prigozhin in the Bakhmut region in an image from an undated video released on March 3.

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China brokering a deal between the Saudis and Iran is a message for the US: Change your strategy or get left behind

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A Tehran newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia on March 11.

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The story behind North Korea's wacky homegrown version of the AK-74 rifle

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North Korean troops march during a military parade in Pyongyang in January 2021.

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Western countries are speeding up tank deliveries to Ukraine, but tanks aren't what Ukrainian troops need to get around Russian forces

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A Ukrainian tank at a shooting range near the frontline in Zaporizhzhia on March 29.

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China's navy is looking to junior high schools as it scrambles to find pilots for its growing aircraft carrier fleet

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Chinese J-15 fighter jets on the Liaoning aircraft carrier during a drill in the South China Sea in January 2017.

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