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A Pantsir-S1 air defense system overturned on a road near Sochi while trying to avoid colliding with a car on Oct. 17. A Russian Defense Ministry statement said the vehicle was recovered by a repair unit and it left the scene on its own.
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Sixteen veterans from the 2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery Regiment, U.S. Army gathered at the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Museum, Fort Sill to see the exhibit of their deployment to Taiwan in 1958-59.
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The U.S. Navy will attempt to intercept an unarmed ballistic missile fired from a U.K. range near Scotland later this month.
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Bahrain’s Minister of Information Affairs Isa bin Abdulrahman Al Hammadi said recent news reports on Bahrain’s plan to buy the Israeli-made Iron Dome missile system is untrue.
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Taiwan has completed works to improve the current runway at Taiping Island, the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands.
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