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Brazil halts sale of ex-carrier
The fate of the aircraft carrier NAe São Paulo, which was officially decommissioned from the Brazilian Navy in November 2018 and put up for sale before its expected shipbreaking, is uncertain after the Brazilian government suspended the process on 6 September.
The government said that the Brazilian Navy was resuming ...
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