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India plans to set up a satellite tracking and data reception centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and analysts are saying that the facility will allow India to monitor Chinese military activities that are far from its border with China.
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Back in 2014, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel commissioned a review of the entire U.S. nuclear force by a group of nuclear weapons experts. The review started in March and it was during that period when an accident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base resulted in $1.8 million in damage to a Minuteman missile. Air Force Global Strike Command now said the review team was not told of the accident.
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The U.S. Air Force has released a redacted report into an accident F.E. Warren Air Force Base on May 16, 2014 which resulted in $1.8 million in damage to a nuclear-tipped Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.
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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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