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Between October 2005 and January 2016, the Ugandan Ministry of Defense paid approximately $545,000 to a Russian instructor pilot.
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The U.S. Army has come up with a solution on how to tackle threatening drones by using a modified 40mm grenade that unleashes a net.
Credit:USPTO
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German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAZ) said on Feb. 10 that Russia has at least 64 9M729 cruise missiles in its inventory.
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The U.S Army has confirmed that it will be buying two sets of the Israeli Iron Dome anti-missile system to assess it ability to “protect deployed U.S. military service members against a wide variety of indirect fire threats and aerial threats.”
Israel Defense Forces and Nehemiya Gershoni נחמיה גרשוני [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Rudra light attack helicopter was forced to make a precautionary landing in a potato field outside Bengaluru on Feb. 5.
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