Bloomberg reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a request by Iran to buy the S-400 air defense missiles system.
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Category: Air Defense
Mayor in Yamaguchi Prefecture against deployment of Aegis Ashore
The mayor of Abu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has petitioned the central government to scrap its plan to deploy the Aegis Ashore system in the Prefecture.
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Kauai, Hawaii, successfully conducted Flight Test Integrated-03 (FTI-03).
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China has started inspecting its second set of S-400 system
TASS says China has started to inspect the second set of S-400 air defense missile system it ordered at the Kapustin Yar practice range.
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SPYDER shot down Mi-17 on Feb. 27
India’s NDTV says a Mi-17 was actually shot down by a SPYDER air defense missile system on Feb. 27 while Pakistan Air Force was executing Operation Swift Retort inside Jammu and Kashmir.
THAAD being deployed at Aegis Ashore site in Romania
B Battery (THAAD), 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd U.S. Army Air and Missile Defense Command has started to deploy at the Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense at Naval Support Facility Deveselu, Romania.
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