Reuters reports that Israel has agreed to sell the Spyder air defense system made by Rafael to the United Arab Emirates.
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Category: Air Defense
Germany selects Arrow 3
Bloomberg says Germany has selected the Israeli Arrow 3 over THAAD for its ballistic missile defense program.
JGSDF Type 11 SAM test-firing exercise
The JGSDF 15th Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment took a 6-day ferry trip to Hokkaido from Okinawa in order to practice firing the Type 11 surface-to-air missile there.
NASAMS fires AIM-9X, AMRAAM, and AMRAAM-ER in first-of-its kind capability demonstration
In partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) office, Raytheon Missiles & Defense conducted a first-of-its kind Air Base Air Defense experiment in which AIM-9X, AMRAAM, and AMRAAM-ER were fired from NASAMS.
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History of the Defense Support Program Satellites
Dwayne A. Day looks at the origins and evolution of the U.S. Defense Support Program Satellites, an early warning space constellation tasked with detecting missile launches.
NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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