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Taiwan’s Minister of National Defense Feng Shih-kuan said on Jan. 24 the government’s next defense priority after getting the advanced jet trainer is to develop an indigenous stealth fighter.
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India is making preparations to test fire its K-4 submarine-launch ballistic missile (K-4) on Jan. 31.
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Sankei news reports that the joint British-Japanese technical feasibility study for the Joint New Air-to-Air Missile (JNAAM) will be completed by this year.
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A neuromorphic CMOS chip produced by IBM is able to pick out tanks and other vehicles from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images while using a minimal amount of energy to do so.
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Taiwan is said to have tested an extended range version of its Hsiung Feng 3 (HF-3) supersonic anti-ship missile after CHinese aircraft carrier Liaoning arrived in the South China Sea last month.
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