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Lockheed Martin gets AN/ALQ-248 development contract

Posted on January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 by alert5

The U.S. Navy has awarded a development contract for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare (AOEW) Active Mission Payload (AMP) AN/ALQ-248 system.

Graphic: Lockheed Martin
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Taiwan has completed research on ship-launched TC-2, deploy on its stealth frigates

Posted on January 10, 2018 by alert5

Taiwan news outlets are reporting that development of the indigenous ship-launched surface-to-air variant of the Sky Sword II missile has been completed and the deploy on the Kang Ding class stealth frigates from 2020.

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Photos of RTAF T-50TH stopover in Taiwan

Posted on January 9, 2018 by alert5

Thank you Mr Chin for sharing with us photos of two Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) T-50THs’ overnight stopover in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The jets left this morning at 0925 hrs.

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Secretive Zuma payload said to have failed to reach orbit

Posted on January 9, 2018 by alert5

SpaceX successfully launch the Zuma payload on its Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 8 but now there are rumors that the payload failed to reach orbit and fell back to Earth together with the upper stage of the Falcon.

Photo: SpaceX

IISS: Buying both Eurofighter and F-35 could be possible solution for Germany

Posted on January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 by alert5

Douglas Barrie of IISS says Germany needs the F-35 in order to fulfill the nuclear deterrence role under NATO as the Eurofighter is not certified to drop the American B61 thermonuclear weapon.

Tim Felce [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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