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Serbia drops plan to buy S-400 over U.S. threats of sanctions

Posted on November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 by alert5

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told RTS national television on Nov. 6 that the country will not buy the S-400 air defense missile system.

By Соколрус [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons

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Taiwan could reevaluate plan to buy land-based Phalanx weapons system

Posted on November 7, 2019November 7, 2019 by alert5

A new report from Taiwan’s Up Media suggest the military is reassessing a plan to buy the land-based Phalanx weapons system to help protect its underground air bases at Hualien and Taitung.

A land–based Phalanx weapons system assigned to B Battery, 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment conducts a test fire mission to maintain mission readiness at Camp Manion, Iraq, Jan. 6, 2017. The LPWS targets and destroys incoming enemy munitions before they are able to cause damage to an area. B Battery, 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment conducted the fire mission in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, the global Coalition to defeat ISIL in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christopher Brecht)

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AN/SPN-50 demonstrated for first time at Webster Field

Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 by alert5

The U.S. Navy demonstrated the AN/SPN-50 for the first time Oct. 23 at Webster Field in St. Inigoes, Maryland.

Photo: U.S. Navy

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Kongsberg to develop road-mobile variant of NASAMS

Posted on November 1, 2019 by alert5

Kongsberg has signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to deliver the Mobile Ground Based Air Defence to the Norwegian Army.

Graphic: Kongsberg
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Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has ordered Leonardo’s KRONOS LAND radar

Posted on October 30, 2019 by alert5

The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has ordered Leonardo’s KRONOS LAND radar. The contract award was announced at Bahrain International Defence Exhibition and Conference.

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