Major drug busts suggest Russia is becoming a hub for cocaine heading to Europe

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The Kremlin in Moscow.

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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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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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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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Mistakes by the US's top spies allowed China to turn a deadly mid-air collision into an intelligence coup

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The crew of a US Navy EP-3 detained in China board a flight to Guam on April 12, 2001.

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The US's B-29 bomber was more expensive than the nuclear bomb it dropped on Japan at the end of World War II

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A B-29 drops bombs on Formosa on October 18, 1944.

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The US Army is getting a new vehicle to replace the armored personnel carrier it has used since before the Vietnam War

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A US Army Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle after field testing on September 24, 2018.

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Cocaine production is taking root in a new region

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A Honduran police officer stands on confiscated packages of cocaine on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa in July 2012.

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The US military has 6 new air-to-air missiles in the works

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US airmen remove a training missile from a F-15C in September 2018.

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