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South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) office has said that the country is now in talks to link South Korea’s 2nd Master Control and Report Center (MCRC) and China’s Eastern Theater Command.
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The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) carried out a rapid deployment drill for the PAC-3 air defense missile system at the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park on Oct. 9.
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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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