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South Korea’s PAC-2 missile blew up four seconds into flight

Posted on October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 by alert5

South Korea’s testing of a PAC-2 missile went wrong on Oct. 25 when the interceptor blew up four seconds after it was fired from its canister.

By 대한민국 국군 Republic of Korea Armed Forces [CC BY-SA 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

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Patriot’s C-band PESA radar is showing up on SAR satellite images

Posted on October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 by alert5

A new way to geolocate C-band air defense radars have been discovered by Harel Dan. Analyzing the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data generated by Europe’s Sentinel 1 satellites. He found out that the radars showed up as X-shaped marks in the images.

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ImageSat International reveals location of Syria’s S-300

Posted on October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 by alert5

ImageSat International has found the location of Syria’s S-300 air defense missile system. Since it was delivered by Russia in the last week of September, the system has been moved to a Syrian air defense base at Maysaf.