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The deployment of Spanish Patriot air defense missile system in Turkey will be extended to June this year, the Daily Sabah learned from diplomatic sources.
By Sivi Steys (Flickr: Patriot) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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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.
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Graphic: Lockheed Martin
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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.
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.
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.
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Photo: SpaceX
