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Bahrain’s Minister of Information Affairs Isa bin Abdulrahman Al Hammadi said recent news reports on Bahrain’s plan to buy the Israeli-made Iron Dome missile system is untrue.
By Israel Defense Forces and Nehemiya Gershoni נחמיה גרשוני (see also https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Flickr-IDF-IronDome-in-action001.jpg ) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/idfonline/8194572552/) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Taiwan has completed works to improve the current runway at Taiping Island, the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands.
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More troubles for the Luftwaffe Eurofighter fleet as the jets are now restricted from flying with external fuel tanks attached.
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Ecuador has decided to ground its last remaining three Dhruv helicopters after four of them had crashed.
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Up till now, a laser weapon system mounted on a aircraft can only engage targets in front while flying close to the speed of sound. Lockheed Martin has overcome the barrier with its Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control (ABC) turret.
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Photo: U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
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