Japan is offering two air surveillance radars for export. The FPS-3ME and TPS-P14ME are modernised AESA radars.
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Category: Air Defense
EASR to begin live testing at Wallops Island Test Facility
Raytheon’s Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) is now sitting on top of a 100 foot test tower at the Surface Combat Systems Center at Wallops Island, Virginia. It will undergo system-level testing for the rest of this year.
Photo” Raytheon
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How the S-200 lead Americans to arm ICBMs with MIRV warheads
In 1964, a KH-4A Corona satellite spotted a site in Tallinn, Soviet Estonia under construction. The discovery lead the Americans to believe that the Soviets are setting up an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at the site.
George Chernilevsky [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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March 2019 flight test video of David’s Sling
U.S. Army in South Korea set up first garrison Counter-UAS design
The Echo Battery, 6-52 Air and Missile Defense Battalion (E/6-52 AMD BN) of the U.S. Army has established the first garrison Counter-UAS (C-UAS) defense design in the Korean Theater of Operations (KTO).
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