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South Korea is ready to share data from its Korean Air and Missile Defense System (KAMD) with the United States military using Link-16.
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In a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, head of the United States Strategic Command, Adm. Cecil D. Haney, said China has so far conducted six successful tests of its hypersonic glide vehicle.
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The Aegis Ashore test facility in Hawaii might become the newest U.S. anti-ballistic missile site as the Pentagon toys with the idea of making it fully operational.
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More details have emerged on the Missile Defense Agency’s plan to fit a laser weapon on a high flying unmanned aerial vehicle in order to destroy ballistic missiles at the boost-phase.
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The Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft from Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) was selected by NASA last week to deliver material to the International Space Station (ISS) from 2019. The mini-shuttle with its slated wing configuration was an idea borrowed from the Soviet BOR lifting bodies.
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