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During a test of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense System (AIAMD) on Nov. 12 at White Sands Missile Range, a MQM 107 drone simulating as a cruise missile tried to avoid detection from the Patriot air defense system by flying below its radar coverage.
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Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s Air Defense Artillery (ADA) and Field Artillery (FA) units at Fort Sill came together on Nov. 12 to conduct a joint night-time C-RAM exercise.
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Screen grab from KSWO’s video
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AFP was given access to see how French Air Force pilots and navigators are trained to survive after ejecting over hostile territories.
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AFP Photo/Jean-Pierre Muller
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The Indian government is set to give the green light to develop a derivative of the GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri turbofan engine to power its indigenous unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
By Jagan Pillariseti.Jineshgopinathan at en.wikipedia [CC BY 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons
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The Indian Navy is ready to test fire the Barak-8 anti-air missile from its destroyer INS Kolkata.
By Georges Seguin (Okki) (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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