Aviation News
The U.S. Army has placed one of the two JLENS in strategic reserve. This means combatant commanders around the world can have the air defense system deployed to their area of operations.
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The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully intercepted an intermediate-range ballistic missile target using an enhanced version of the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) on Jun. 22.
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Austria may allow foreign fighters to enter its airspace as part of its “adjusted air surveillance” proposal to cut flying hours of its Eurofighters.
Continue reading “Austria could follow Swiss example and reduce air interception capability”
South Korea’s Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Seoul is not interested in buying the THAAD air defense system and won’t stop the U.S. from deploying it on its soil.
Wolfram Lautner, a spokesman for MBDA Deutschland, told Defense News that Germany could spend up to €3 billion to go it alone on the MEADS air defense system.
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