Due to sequestration, F-16s from the 35th Fighter Wing in Misawa, Japan have been unable to practice Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) during this year’s Red Flag exercises. Now, the Wild Weasels are getting SEAD training with help from Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
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Category: Air Defense
Dempsey calls on Japan, South Korea to establish trilateral ballistic missile defense architecture
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey told the American Forces Press Service after his tour of Northeast Asia that Japan and South Korea should join the United States to “seek to establish a collaborative, trilateral ballistic missile defense architecture” using the three countries military assets.
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Taiwan to deploy 3 PAC-3s in the south
Taiwan’s Deputy Defense Minister Andrew Yang told lawmakers that three PAC-3 missile batteries will be deployed in the southern part of the island.
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Russian spy plane flew along Swedish coast
A Russian spy plane in the straits between Sweden’s Öland and Gotland on Apr. 20 while a multinational exercise was being carried out nearby.
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Russian Tu-22M3s carried out mock attack on Sweden
In the early morning on Mar. 29, two Russian Air Force Tu-22M3 bombers along with four Su-27 escorts carried out a mock attack on Sweden.
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