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U.S. And U.K. Navies Look Towards Interchangeability

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U.S. And U.K. Navies Look Towards Interchangeability
The first take off of an F-35B form the UK’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier off the east coast of the U.S. in September 2018. (Photo: UK Ministry of Defence)

The U.S. and U.K. Navy service chiefs agreed to a Statement of Intent (SOI) on Oct. 21 to endeavor to move from interoperability and cooperation toward having interchangeable forces and capabilities. The agreement, called a “Statement of Intent Regarding Future Integrated Warfighting” (FIW), notes both sides have worked on a shared cooperative vision document since 2014 called “Combined Seapower” and that was succeeded by “Delivering Combined Seapower” for more collaboration in 2016. However, the navies now said given a different…

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