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Taiwan’s United Daily News cited an anonymous ‘military expert’ as saying that two U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers approached the southern coast of China on Apr. 24 to practice the launch of cruise missiles into the country.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Israel carried out an airstrike on Syria’s T4 airbase last week in order to keep a newly-arrive Iranian Tor air defense missile system from being activated.
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Head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, told the Senate appropriations subcommittee on defense that he expects the F-35 to be capable of detecting and tracking ballistic missiles by 2025.
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced on Apr. 6 that it has linked the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot air defense missiles system so that both can work as an integrated unit.
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In an interview with Russian news outlet Sputnik, Pakistani Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan disclosed that his country is in talks with Russia to buy the latter’s air defense system.
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