Category: Air Defense

Taiwan had planned to shoot down its indigenous Sky Bow II interceptor with the American Patriot air defense system on Oct. 5 but the countdown was aborted after a China Coast Guard vessel was found lurking nearby.

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Raytheon and Kongsberg has successfully test-fired the AMRAAM-ER from the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) in Norway on Aug. 31.

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Japanese military officials are telling Reuters that the country’s ballistic missile defense (BMD) system will not be able to fend off a missile attack from North Korea as Pyongyang had made advances in its ballistic missile technology over the past two decades.

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A South Korean lawmaker has disclosed that the two Green Pine radars bought from Israel have been failing repeatedly.

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Fox News, citing U.S. officials, is saying that Russia has deployed it S-300VM air defense missile system to Syria.

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