Sweden has deployed a RBS 23 medium range air defense missile system to Gotland.
Swadim [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Category: Air Defense
Qatar to be first operator of AMRAAM-ER
Qatar has elected to buy the Raytheon National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) under a $2.2 billion deal and the air defense missile system will be armed with the new AMRAAM-ER missile.
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Photo: Raytheon
ELM-2084 participated in LTAMDS “sense off”
Lockheed Martin joined hands with Elta to propose the ELM-2084 S-band radar for the U.S. Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) program.
United States Missile Defense Agency [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Italy extending deployment of SAMP/T in Turkey till December
An Italian SAMP/T air defense missile system deployed in Turkey’s southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş will remain there till Dec. 31.
By Georges Seguin (Okki) (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Separatist believed to be linked to MH17 has been captured
A team of Ukrainian special services agents went into the Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine and captured a separatist believed to be linked to the downing of flight MH17 in 2014.
Ministerie van Defensie [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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