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AI helps researchers identify Chinese SAM sites in 42 minutes

Posted on November 22, 2017 by alert5

A team from the Center for Geospatial Intelligence, at the University of Missouri have came up with deep learning algorithms that can help imagery analysts locate missiles site within a day.

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Poland cleared to buy PAC-3 system worth $10.5 billion

Posted on November 19, 2017November 18, 2017 by alert5

The U.S. government has given the green light for Poland to “purchase phase one of a two- phase program for an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS)-enabled Patriot Configuration-3+ with Modernized Sensors and Components.”

A patriot missile launcher system part of 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, sits in a training area during the unit’s table gunnery training exercise on Kadena Air Base in Japan, Oct. 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

Raytheon not offering air-to-air variant of AMRAAM-ER

Posted on November 17, 2017 by alert5

Jane’s was told by Raytheon at the Dubai airshow that the company has no plans to evolve the AMRAAM-ER into an air-to-air missile.

Photo: Raytheon
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RAND: Declaring a ADIZ in South China Sea could work against Chinese strategic goals there

Posted on November 14, 2017 by alert5

Edmund J. Burke and Astrid Stuth Cevallos from American think tank RAND have completed their study on China’s approach to Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in theory and practice.

By Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa) [CC BY-SA 2.0 or ODbL], via Wikimedia Commons
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