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Textron Aviation Defense specifically will assemble the Beechcraft M-346N at Textron’s east campus in Wichita if the U.S. Navy awards it the undergraduate jet training system program contract.
The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea. The Navy has eight warships in the region.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is routing a carrier strike group to US Southern Command to bolster efforts in a new Caribbean drug war.
The Pentagon said the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group will enhance U.S. military capabilities in the Caribbean.
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ramps up military pressure on Venezuela over alleged drug trafficking.
Experts call it "21st-century gunboat diplomacy" as U.S. positions strike-capable forces in Caribbean amid tensions with Maduro regime and cartels.
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly said the Trump administration’s sending aircraft carrier battle group to waters around Central and South America is “questionable.”
A U.S. Navy helicopter and a fighter jet crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday, but all five crew members aboard the two aircraft<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More