22.12.2011, 22:23
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21. December
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CHINA
Update: 3rd round of sea trials for aircraft carrier ex-VARYAG to last nine days. “Experts” speculating on possible first aircraft operations (fixed-wing aircraft flying approaches without landing?).
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RUSSIA
DefMin Serdyukov insinuates the 3rd and 4th MISTRAL class helicopter carriers may be built by Sevmash in Severodvinsk. Only on 02 Dec, Baltic Shipyard near St. Petersburg had been named as building site (with even preliminary contracts signed).
(rmks: looks like typical Russian confusion)
RUSSIA
ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV aircraft carrier task force has passed west of the UK, now “south of England” continuing enroute the Mediterranean. British destroyer YORK ends shadowing mission.
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USA
The IWO JIMA Amphibious Ready Group (IWO JIMA, GUNSTON HALL, NEW YORK) completed Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) off the US Atlantic coast … preparing for upcoming exercise “Bold Alligator 2012” (end Jan) and a subsequent regular deployment … conduct Certification Exercise (CERTEX) ahead of “Bold Alligator”.
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