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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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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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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.
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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India announced on May 17 that it has carried out the first cooperative engagement firing of the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM).
Photo: Indian Ministry of Defence
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