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Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion 178th Infantry Regiment were taught how to counter commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) drones in a course conducted by the 5th Armored Brigade, First Army Division West.
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Airmen from the Lithuanian Air Force have started testing the NASAMS medium-range air defence system at the Kongsberg factory in Norway.
Photo: Lithuanian armed forces
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On this day 60 years ago, a S-75 surface-to-air missile was fired by China’s 2nd surface-to-air missile battalion in Beijing and it shot down a Martin RB-57D Canberra high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, #5643, over Tong County Zhangjiawan. It was the first time that a surface-to-air missile had brought down an aircraft.
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A Swedish Air Defence Regiment in Halmstad has taken delivery of the IRIS-T SLS firing units in August 2019.
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A news report from Kyodo news says Japan’s air defense systems had failed to track some of North Korea’s new ballistic missile launches in recent months.
Photo: Rodong Simbun
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