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A Chinese 22-year-old exchange student is being held for questioning by Tokyo police after he illegally exported a Star Safire III Forward looking infrared (FLIR) camera system to China.
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Israel has declared the naval version of the Iron Dome aboard Sa’ar 5-class corvette INS Lahav operational.
Flight Global has shed light on how Israel plans to compete in Croatia’s MiG-21 replacement competition using a mix fleet of surplus F-16s.
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A Japanese defense official told Bradley Perrett of Aviation Week that the X-2 stealth demonstrator has collected more of the data required with just 34 flights.
The Pentagon complained that a Russian Su-30 had carried out an unsafe intercept of a U.S. Navy P-8A on Nov. 25 over the Black Sea.
Continue reading “Russian Su-30 rock USN P-8A with its afterburners”
