Aviation News
The U.S. government has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Japan of 32 AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) with support for an estimated cost of $63 million.
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Taiwan has deployed a small number of its indigenous Albatross unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to Pratas and Taiping Islands in the South China Sea.
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Japan’s National Security Council met on Aug. 25 and one of the slides show the proposal to implement the Aegis Ashore missile defense system with the missile interceptors located on various types of platforms.
Graphic: 国家安全保障局
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Japan’s Ministry of Defense is soliciting for bidders to build a full-scale model of an aircraft for radar cross-section (RCS) measurement.
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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to rectify a plan to buy 20 F-35As and 20 F-35Bs under phase 2 of its FX III fighter program in October’s meeting.
Sgt. 1st Class MilagrosLaura Laura [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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