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Zvezda, a television network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, reported that the Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber will be modernized in the next few years and the jet will be getting new armament and electronic warfare systems.
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The Pentagon announced on Dec. 9 that Madison Research Corp. will supply 450 thermal batteries, 466 rocket motors, 150 safety and arming devices, and 248 warheads for Taiwan’s MIM-72A Chaparral air defense missile system.
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China’s Ministry of National Defense says that on Dec. 10, its military aircraft was on a long-range training mission to Miyako Strait and two Japanese F-15Js came along and fired flares close to its warplanes.
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Indonesia still wishes to buy eight Sukhoi Su-35 fighters from Russia and is negotiating with Moscow on the prices, Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu disclosed.
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Since September, Boeing engineers have been busy at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, swapping the old APG-70 radars on the F-15Es there and replacing them with the state-of-the-art APG-82 AESA radar.
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