navy
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Orizzonte Sistemi Navali signed a 3.7 billion euro agreement to supply two destroyers to the Italian navy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Lt Cdr Ben Brown, commanding officer of the Royal Navy's Bravo Squadron bomb disposal team, added navy disposal experts were continuing to help police with the unexploded "air-dropped bomb".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Coast Guard said it was coordinating its search efforts with the Mexican navy and commercial vessels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Working with navy divers, Andresen and her colleagues collected water and sediment from around the wreck.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Next to it, there’s a painting of a much younger Granddaddy in his navy uniform.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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Russia and China have also moved closer, with their navies and air forces conducting joint exercises in areas around Japan, promoting frequent scrambles by Japanese jets.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Foreign navies could test out new weapons systems at a maritime missile-range facility north of Oahu—tests they are often unable to undertake back home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The attacks forced international navies to instead tackle the Houthi threat, thus allowing armed groups on the Somali coast to take advantage of the security lapse.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
What’s become apparent, Meade posits, is that control of the oceans through navies is no longer straightforward either.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
The conquest and administration of this maritime proto-empire were achieved by navies of large canoes, each holding up to 150 men.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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