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The Japanese Ministry of Defense has set its sights on obtaining a record $51 billion budget from the government for fiscal 2017.
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The new SM-3 Block 2A interceptor, jointly develop by the United States and Japan, will face its first intercept test this October.
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Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander, Naval Air Forces, was recently at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and he said defense contractors competing in the MQ-25A program will have to find the sweet spot between supporting mission tanking and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
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The Indian Air Force has been given the green light to replace a C-130J that was lost in an accident in March 2014.
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Israel is sending some of its F-16 fighter pilots to India for what is dubbed a “working visit” whereby they will visit a Indian Air Force fighter squadron.
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