Globes has corrected an earlier report that a $1.1 billion arms sale by Israel Aerospace Industries was not with India.
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Category: Space
Photo: Taiwan confirms JL-2 SLBM tested recently. Fishermen nets 1st stage
Taiwan’s military has confirmed that China tested a JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile before the New Year. Meanwhile, fishermen in Shandong province have allegedly recovered the wreckage of a JL-2 first stage.
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Russia to set up Voronezh radar near Irkutsk
A new Voronezh early warning radar will be put into operation near the Siberian city of Irkutsk by the end of this year.
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Update: X-37B can’t be spying on Chinese spacelab
A new article on IEEE Spectrum debunked the myth that the Pentagon is using the X-37B to spy on Tiangong-1, the first Chinese spacelab.
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Magazine: X-37B probably spying on China’s spacelab
A report in Spaceflight magazine has claimed that the Boeing X-37B is probably spying on China’s Tiangong-1 spacelab as its orbit closely matches the Chinese one.
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