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A French Air Force Mirage 2000D fighter assigned to Nancy-Ochey Air Base has crashed on Jan. 9 during a low-altitude training mission.
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Alf van Beem [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons
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A new Kalibr-M cruise missile that has a range of 4,500km is being developed, an anonymous source told TASS.
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Interfax reports that a new contract for the upgrade of the MiG-31BM interceptors was signed recently.
Dmitriy Pichugin [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
The Pentagon quietly conducted a test of the hyper velocity projectile (HVP) aboard USS Dewey during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2018.
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U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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China’s defense researcher Liu Yongtan was recently honored with the top science award at the National Science and Technology Award Conference.
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