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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban plans to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month and one of the items on discussion is the supply of 30 Russian military helicopters for the Hungarian Air Force.
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The Aegis Ashore test facility in Hawaii might become the newest U.S. anti-ballistic missile site as the Pentagon toys with the idea of making it fully operational.
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A news crew from Russian television station “First Channel” was given a rare access to the 559th bomber regiment based at Morozovsk air base.
More details have emerged on the Missile Defense Agency’s plan to fit a laser weapon on a high flying unmanned aerial vehicle in order to destroy ballistic missiles at the boost-phase.
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A Russian Su-27 was being intercepted by a Swedish fighter on Jan. 15 when it suddenly made “sharp evasive maneuvers in both speed and height”, the Swedish Armed Forces said in a press release.
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