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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s air defense units in Miyakojima island and Ishigakijima island in Okinawa Prefecture will be the first in the country to receive the new Type 3 Chū-SAM Kai air defense missile system.
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A interim flying test bed for the A-100 AEW&C platform will make its first flight next year and is being dubbed A-100LL. The actual A-100 will not fly until 2018.
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India is unable to deliver the last Mi-25 attack helicopter to Afghanistan due to a lack of spares to make the aircraft serviceable.
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News outlets from Nigeria reported that the country is planning to phase out its Chinese-made CH-3 unmanned aerial vehicles and substitute them with the Yabhon Flash-20 made by UAE’s ADCOM Systems.
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South Korea has decided that it will arm the first batch of Incheon-class frigates with the supersonic Haeseong II ship-to-surface cruise missile.
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