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The 931st Air Refueling Group at McConnell Air Force Base will be re-designated as a wing in early 2016, according to a press release from the base.
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The U.S. Army has lifted the five-day grounding of its rotor-craft fleet in stateside, imposed after three mishaps killed eight soldiers in a month.
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Western defense officials believe North Korea had suffered a severe setback in its KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) program.
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TASS news agency reported that two S-400 air defense regiments have been fully deployed at Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the city of Tiksi in Yakutia. Both locations are in Russia’s Arctic region.
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The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted the second successful flight test of the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor at the U.S. Navy’s Point Mugu Sea Range on Dec. 8.
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