RIA Novosti reported that Russia’s inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM) will be equipped with an advanced targeting system capable of defeating the U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) system.
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Category: Space
USMC woman fighter pilot selected for NASA astronaut class
Maj. Nicole Aunapu Mann, an F/A 18 pilot from the U.S Marine Corps, is the first woman fighter pilot to be selected for astronaut training with NASA in two decades.
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Japan’s LDP outlines a more aggressive defense posture
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) plans to let the JSDF have amphibious and pre-emptive strike capability.
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SM-3 Block IB engaged sophisticated, separating short-range ballistic missile target
During a Missile Defense Agency test, USS Lake Erie successfully employed a SM-3 Block IB to engage a
sophisticated, separating short-range ballistic missile target.
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Rocket was China’s highest suborbital launch since 1976
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the launch of a rocket from China on May 13 was China’s highest suborbital launch since 1976.
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