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India successfully tested its X-37B-clone, the Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), on May 23. The vehicle reached an altitude of 65km before descending at Mach 5 to make a water landing in the Bay of Bengal.
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An abandoned Dnepr early-warning radar at Crimea’s Sevastopol will be reactivated with components coming from a similar station near Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia.
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South Korea announced that it will join Japan and United States for a trilateral ballistic missile defense exercise in Hawaii on Jun. 28.
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TASS is reporting that parts for the new Russian rail-based ICBM system, dubbed Barguzin, are being assembled.
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The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System (AAMDS) in Romania was declared as operationally certified in a ceremony held in Deveselu, May 12.
Photo: U.S. Navy