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The Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) has completed its weapons trials with the rotocraft firing an air-to-air missile which destroyed its target.
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TASS reported on Jan. 16 that Russia will order its second batch of 13 Su-57 fighters next year.
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H/T to @MIL_STD for providing to the graphic. The U.S. Navy intends to upgrade the SM-2 missile to Block IIIC and this upgraded missile will have an anti-surface capability.
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Defense officials from Japan and South Korea met in Singapore on Jan. 14 to try resolve their differences over an alleged radar lock on a Japanese P-1 maritime patrol aircraft by a South Korean destroyer.
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News reports says the U.S. Army is asking Congress for $373 million to buy the two Iron Dome missile interceptor batteries.
Israel Defense Forces and Nehemiya Gershoni נחמיה גרשוני (see also https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Flickr-IDF-IronDome-in-action001.jpg ) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons