Category: Air Force

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment when he was asked who might have supplied the Man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that shot down one of its Su-25 in Syria.

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Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis disclosed that Russia has permanently deployed the Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system to the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.

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South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) says the country has completed the deployment of Lockheed Martin’s Sniper targeting pod on its F-16 fleet.

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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) held a funeral in Guizhou on Feb. 4 for the crew aboard a Y-8 that crashed on Jan. 29.