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Brazil had walked away from plans to buy the Pantsir-S1 self-propelled air defence system from Russia, Jane’s reported.
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Iran says its has tested its indigenous air defense missile systems during a recent war game dubbed “Defenders of the Velayat Skies.” One such system is the Sayyad-2.
Anonymous sources told Taipei Times that the military had to deploy a battery of PAC-3 air defense missile system to Taitung on the east coast of the island as the preferred Tien Kung III was not available for relocation.
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), together with the Japan Ministry of Defense, has carried out the first successful intercept of the new SM-3 Block IIA interceptor off the west coast of Hawaii.
The folks over at Offiziere.ch has found the AN/TPY-2 early warning radar deployed east of Al Sheleilah in UAE.
