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Combat debut of Arrow ABM

Posted on March 19, 2017March 19, 2017 by alert5

Israel has fired its indigenous Arrow anti-ballistic missile in combat for the first time. The system was used to bring down a Syrian surface-to-air missile that was targeting Israeli warplanes.

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DARPA downselects two companies for Gremlins program

Posted on March 18, 2017March 18, 2017 by alert5

DARPA has moved to phase 2 of its Gremlins research project and Dynetics and General Atomics are given the green light to proceed to the next phase.

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Trump picks Boeing executive to be No. 2 at Pentagon

Posted on March 18, 2017 by alert5

The Trump administration has recommended Boeing senior vice president Patrick Shanahan to be deputy defense secretary.

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Iraq has taken delivery of T-50IQ

Posted on March 18, 2017 by alert5

Iraq has taken delivery of the KAI T-50IQ, the country’s Air Force chief Anwar Hamad Amin announced on Mar. 16.

Photo: KAI

Ukraine is making its own copy of the MiG-29

Posted on March 18, 2017 by alert5

Ukraine is set to produce its own indigenous fighter and Jane’s reported that the jet will strongly resemble the MiG-29.

By Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (Air Force of Ukraine. By Taras Gren) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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