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Korean media are reporting that Seoul and Washington have agreed to deploy the THAAD system in Seongju County.
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VMFA-121 brought its F-35Bs to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada to participate in Red Flag 16-3. This is the first time combat-coded F-35Bs are engaged in the realistic combat training exercise, which runs from Jul. 11-29.
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Raytheon’s vice president for Integrated Air and Missile Defense declared at the Farnborough Air Show that the company’s Patriot air defense system had a 100 percent success rate intercepting ballistic missiles fired from Yemen.
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L-3 says it has completed the first commercial-off-the-shelf avionics upgrade of a Argentine Air Force C-130H and delivered the aircraft back to the customer.
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Portugal’s Euro 2016 team was welcomed home by two Portuguese Air Force F-16s as their Boeing 737 head towards Humberto Delgado Airport. Midfielder Joao Moutinho posted a video on his Instagram account on the encounter.