Aviation News
Japan and the United States are both discussing the potential multimillion-dollar updates to two Atago-class destroyers to enable them to fire the SM-3 Block IIA.
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China is reported to have tested its DF-41 solid-fueled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile on Jul. 24.
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The U.S. Navy was roped in by the CIA to recover a film capsule from a KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite that had landed 16,400 feet below the Pacific Ocean in 1972. Details of that salvage operation was recently declassified.
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U.S. President Obama has nominated Rear Adm. James D. Syring as the next head of the Missile Defense Agency.
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Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Sunday that Syria’s first man in space, Gen. Mohammed Ahmed Fares, has defected to Turkey and joined the Free Syrian Army. A video on YouTube shows him visiting a rebel base in Aleppo, his hometown.
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