An abandoned Dnepr early-warning radar at Crimea’s Sevastopol will be reactivated with components coming from a similar station near Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia.
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Category: Air Defense
France blocking NATO’s control of U.S.-built missile defense system
The United States has been trying to hand over the European missile system that it built over to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), however France is withholding the approval over concerns that the system is ready for IOC.
By Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet (Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex Romania) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Watch the C-Dome take out incoming targets from a surface ship
The Israeli Navy has successfully tested the C-Dome, the sea-based version of the Iron Dome, from one of its surface ships.
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Swiss Air Force to upgrade the fire control units and guns of its 35mm Oerlikon Skyguard
Rheinmetall has been given a contract to upgrade the fire control units and guns of the Swiss Air Force 35mm Oerlikon Skyguard air defense system.
By Kobel (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Iran not keen to get S-400 air defense system
Iran’s Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan said his country is not keen to buy the S400 air defense system when queried by a reporter.
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