naval
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More strikes followed as the U.S. built up its naval presence around Venezuela.
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By shooting down four MiG-15s in a single fight, “Royce Williams had accomplished what no other American fighter pilot would ever accomplish,” Thomas McKelvey Cleaver wrote in a history of the Korean naval air campaign.”
The two countries have held live-fire naval drills in the South China Sea and have frequently flown and sailed together near Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.
“The Navy has a whole process for how you go up alongside a ship” and intercept it, said Bryan Clark, a naval strategist at the Hudson Institute.
For Western navies the improvements come at an opportune time, after China built the world’s largest surface naval fleet and its own large autonomous underwater vehicles.
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