Day: May 28, 2020

Taiwan’s deputy defense minister confirms decision to acquire coastal Harpoon missiles

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 by alert5

Taiwan’s deputy defense minister Chang Zhe-Ping has confirm to legislators that Taipei has decided to acquire the coastal road-mobile variant of the Boeing Harpoon Block II missile.

A Harpoon is launched from Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) during a live-fire exercise. McCain is participating in Multi-Sail 2014, an annual exercise in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Cryptologic Technician (Maintenance) Seaman Jacob Shankle/Released)

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Radar sensitivity could be greatly enhanced thanks to improvements to microwave signals in atomic clocks

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Researchers have found a way to boost the stability of microwave signals one hundred times by using optical frequencies from atomic clocks.

Credit: F. Quinlan/NIST

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Belgium to make decision on deployment of F-16s to Jordan by July

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The Belgian government will decide by July whether to send four F-16s to Jordan in October to support Operation Inherent Resolve.

By Gerard van der Schaaf (FA-72) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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Construction of 20 HAS at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea completed

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed the construction of twenty new third generation hardened aircraft shelters (HAS) at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea.