Aviation News
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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TASS has disclosed that the first components of the S-400 air defense missile system for China has been delivered by cargo ships.
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