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China's navy has been operating farther afield and near Japanese territory with increasing frequency, the report said, noting that Chinese navy warships passing between islands in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa have tripled in number between 2021 and 2024.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
Iron Bottom Sound was called Savo Sound before World War II, but Allied sailors gave it its current moniker for the huge numbers of warships that sank in battle there.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 9 July 2025
Chan Long Hei / AP Commissioned in 2019, the carrier is China’s first warship fully built and designed in the country.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 4 July 2025
The attack involved 125 warplanes, submarines and surface warships, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the morning after the attack.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 23 June 2025
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
Iron Bottom Sound was called Savo Sound before World War II, but Allied sailors gave it its current moniker for the huge numbers of warships that sank in battle there.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 9 July 2025
Chan Long Hei / AP Commissioned in 2019, the carrier is China’s first warship fully built and designed in the country.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 4 July 2025
The attack involved 125 warplanes, submarines and surface warships, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the morning after the attack.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 23 June 2025
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“Warship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warship. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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warship
noun
war·ship
ˈwȯ(ə)r-ˌship 
: a ship armed for combat
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