Aviation News
The U.S. Navy has confirmed that the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) left Pearl Harbor on Mar. 23 but the U.S. military will not officially say the radar is being deployed to monitor North Korea’s rocket launch next month.
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By end of the year, Russia will have one S-400 air defense missile system battalion deployed in the Far East.
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Thales delivered the first series-produced RBE2 AESA radar to Dassault Aviation last month and Rafale C137 will be the first to have it installed.
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Four South African Gripens were held back in Sweden after delivery so that they could join Swedish, Czech and Hungarian Gripens for Exercise Lion Effort.
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Tokyo has decided to deploy its F-15 fighters to protect three Aegis destroyers that are monitoring North Korea’s missile launch next month.
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