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Raytheon conducted the first flight test of the Patriot Post-Deployment Build 8 (PDB-8) upgrades and the system shot down two ballistic missile targets in a single test.
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Thales has unveiled its Spy’Ranger mini UAV at Milipol Paris 2015. The drone was designed with input from French aerospace SME, Aviation Design.
Italian Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti and her Dutch counterpart Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Brussels for Dutch pilots to receive flight training using the Italian Air Force’s M-346 on Nov. 17.
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In a regulatory filing with the stock exchange, Xi’an Aircraft International Corporation said chief designer Tang Changhong and chief engineer He Shengqiang have both tendered their job resignation letters on Nov. 16.
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Indonesian Ambassador to Moscow Djauhari Oratmangun told RIA Novosti in an interview that a Russian-Indonesian joint commission on military-technical cooperation will discuss the purchase of the Su-35 fighters in late November in Jakarta.
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