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H/T to DY Lu. China may have deployed its YLC-8B UHF anti-stealth search radar on Pintan Island, Fujian Province. Satellite imagery from Google Earth suggests the radar was only installed this year.
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The U.S. Navy has cleared the SM-6 missile interceptor for full rate production.
By U.S. Navy photo/Released (http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=180264) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) spokesperson confirmed to Yonhap that Boeing’s bid for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition was “unbeatably low.”
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The grandson of Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., who dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, has been forced to retire on Dec. 1 after a probe by the Inspector General found multiple instances of misconduct.
By U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons