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Anonymous defense officials told The Sunday Express that New Delhi is willing to buy a small number of Dassault Rafale fighters is because the aircraft has been identified as the platform to take over the nuclear strike role from the IAF’s Mirage 2000 fighters.
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Engineers from India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will be busy on Sept. 20 as five live-firings of the land-based Barak 8 air defense missile have been scheduled.
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Taiwan will use its IDF and Mirage 2000 fighters for three live air-to-air firing exercises starting from today over the Taiwan Strait.
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The British Ministry of Defense has placed a $3.25 million order for the Leonardo-Finmeccanica BriteCloud decoy system.
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