Navy Plans Missile-Firing Maneuvers Off Puerto Rico
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WASHINGTON — The guided-missile cruisers Ticonderoga and Yorktown will head a force of 18 surface ships in anti-submarine, anti-air and anti-surface warfare maneuvers off Puerto Rico next week that will include missile firings at remotely controlled drones, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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