The Iranian military launched two days of air defence drills on Monday across northern Iran, and state TV aired footage of surface-to-air missiles and air defence systems.
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The rebels and Turkish specialists are actively using portable air defence systems.
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The S-400 is one of the best air-defence systems currently made.
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Tuesday's air patrol highlighted conflicting claims over various "air defence identification zones" (ADIZ).
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Unlike airspace, there are no international laws that govern air defence identification zones.
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The Chinese aircraft also flew through Japan's air defence identification zone, it added.
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Turkey's purchase of the S400 air-defence system from Russia made matters worse.
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The Chinese aircraft also flew through Japan's Air Defence Identification Zone, they said.
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Last September a Russian spy plane was shot down by Syrian air-defence batteries.
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Moscow is also selling sophisticated weapons to Tehran, including S-300 air defence missiles.
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All three balls were seized by Vietnam's Air Defence Army and are being investigated.
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The air capabilities, their air defence capabilities, to destroy 90% of their missile arsenal.
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Saudi state media said air defence forces had intercepted a missile over the capital.
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The Syrian air defence was trying to repulse an Israeli attack near Damascus, RIA said.
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Taiwan has said the aircraft carrier skirted waters outside of its eastern air defence identification zone.
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Analysts point out that the S-400 would not be interoperable with NATO's air-defence system.
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"Our air defence is in a shocking state," says Ajai Shukla, a commentator on military affairs.
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America has threatened economic sanctions against Turkey regarding its purchase of Russia's S-400 air-defence system.
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It flew around 300 miles, reaching Japan's air defence zone, before falling into the Sea of Japan.
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Syrian state television claimed some of the missiles were shot down by the government's air defence systems.
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Correction (July 4th 2019): This piece originally said that Iran had 32 S-300 air-defence batteries.
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The Syrian army said air defence systems brought down most of the U.S., British and French missiles.
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On Tuesday Turkey also took delivery of a second batch of Russian S-400 air defence equipment.
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The mainstay of American naval air defence is Aegis, an orchestrated arrangement of radars, computers, missiles and cannons.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Syrian air defence systems failed to intercept the missiles.
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Japan said the missile reached its air defence identification zone (ADIZ), the first time by a North Korean missile.
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Instead it is pumping much of its growing defence budget into an American Patriot air defence system worth $4.8bn.
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Saudi air defence forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards Riyadh by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saturday.
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Powerful S-400 anti-aircraft missiles maintain an air-defence perimeter in the eastern Mediterranean that constrains even NATO.
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Iran, which operates the Russian S-300 air defence system, would be an even harder target for Saudi warplanes.
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There are deep disagreements over Iran, and strains with Turkey over its intention to buy a Russian air-defence system.
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An air defence zone, while unlikely soon, was feasible and possible in future once China's built up its air strength.
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Two of the projectiles were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system, the military said in a statement.
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In Europe even before the assault, Turkey was at loggerheads with NATO over its purchase of Russian air-defence missiles.
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When the target is "tiny, very light and relatively slow", the assumptions of traditional air defence are all wrong, he says.
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A deal has been agreed in principle for Russia to sell Turkey its potent S-400 long-range air-defence system.
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"President Putin ... informed President Assad that Russian will develop the Syrian air defence systems," the Syrian presidency said in a statement.
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At least one of the missiles fell into Japan's Air Defence Identification Zone, a South Korean military official said by telephone.
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This could involve imposing an "Air Defence Identification Zone" of the kind it has already declared over the East China Sea.
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No Russian air defence systems ever crossed into Ukraine from Russia, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on Wednesday.
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But it offers a blend of tried-and-tested hardware and, to a few customers, superb know-how, especially in air defence.
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Up to 600 "Manoeuvre Short Range Air Defence" teams equipped with these upgraded missiles will join American infantry units around the world.
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But the Harops that Israel has used against air-defence systems in Syria may have been free to do their own thing.
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Some analysts believe China's increasing military presence in the South China Sea could lead to a Beijing-controlled air defence zone there.
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Vityaz (Knight) is a short-to-mid range surface-to-air defence missile system, developed by Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defence Corporation.
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China's foreign ministry said South Korea's air defence identification zone was not territorial airspace and all countries enjoyed freedom of movement in it.
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The targets of that strike included Syrian aircraft, aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage facilities, ammunition supply bunkers, air defence systems and radar.
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Russia said the SU-27 took off from its Baltic Fleet air defence unit, which is based in the European exclave of Kaliningrad.
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The Houthis have launched several missiles at Saudi cities in recent months, most of which have been intercepted by Saudi air defence forces.
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"In the past year and a half Russia has fully restored Syria's air defence system and continues to further upgrade it," Rudskoi said.
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Two of the projectiles launched from Gaza were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system, the military said in a statement.
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"Most conventional air defence radar is designed for high- altitude threats like missiles," said Dave DesRoches at the National Defense University in Washington.
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"During this period, the national military appropriately used air reconnaissance aircraft and air defence forces in accordance with combat readiness regulations," it said.
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A report entitled "UAPs" (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) in the UK Air Defence Region is set to be released to the public after being declassified.
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The move ends a big dispute with America, though other rows, in particular over Turkey's planned purchase of a Russian air-defence system, persist.
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Two Russian bombers and two Chinese bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday, South Korea's defence ministry said.
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Two Russian bombers and two Chinese bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday, South Korea's defense ministry said.
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The South Korean defense ministry said the Russian and Chinese bombers had entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday.
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China has been talking about setting up an Air Defence Identification Zone in the area, requiring incoming aircraft to identify themselves to its authorities.
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Amid the tensions, Washington plans to deploy about 3,000 troops to Saudi Arabia, including fighter squadrons, an air expeditionary wing and air defence personnel.
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Then, on September 24th, Russia announced plans to supply the Syrians with advanced S-300 air-defence batteries, signalling a shift in its regional strategy.
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His decision, confirmed again this month, to push ahead with the purchase of Russian air-defence technology has infuriated America, Turkey's most important NATO ally.
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The S-400 system cannot be integrated with NATO air-defence systems and, at least at first, will be set up and operated by Russians.
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Its officers at T-4 were working to build up an air-defence capability meant to threaten Israeli aircraft—which is why they were targeted.
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Its stationing of an S-400 air defence system there increased Moscow's reach in the Black Sea, where it seized three Ukrainian ships last year.
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A total of six Russian military aircraft repeatedly entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) over a six-hour span starting 9:23 a.m.
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Russia began delivery of the S-400 air defence system to Turkey on Friday, a move expected to trigger U.S. sanctions against its NATO ally.
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The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia's air defence had intercepted the missile with no reported damage or casualties.
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It has also stuffed Crimea full of missiles, including the S-400 air-defence system, making it far riskier for foreign ships and planes in wartime.
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Mr Putin ended the day in Turkey, where Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Turkish counterpart, announced progress on a deal to purchase a Russian air-defence system.
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Russia is pouring in mechanised brigades, tanks, long-range air-defence systems and nuclear-capable missiles, making it one of the most militarised parts of Europe.
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Any U.S. strike would probably involve the navy in waters within range of Syria, given the risk to aircraft from Russian and Syrian air defence systems.
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German air force units have been stationed in Estonia to provide air defence since 2005 but their presence was increased in 2014 for air policing operations.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria's air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said.
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Egyptian investigators said in a statement they had also received radar data from Egyptian air defence that could help explain what happened in the plane's final minutes.
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Syrian air-defence batteries fired a salvo of missiles at the Israeli jets but shot down a Russian spy-plane instead, killing all 15 of its crew.
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The tension intensified in another front as Saudi Arabia said its air defence forces intercepted three ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh and other cities by Yemen's Houthis.
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Some would like to see both missions beefed up to convert the Baltic air policing into air defence and to enlarge the battlegroups and make them permanent.
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Those fragile ties had been under pressure again this year, with Washington threatening Ankara with sanctions over Turkey's planned purchase of a Russian air defence missile system.
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Poland has gone on a spending spree for American arms, signing over $11bn-worth of deals for rocket launchers, Patriot air defence systems and F-35 warplanes.
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But there was little official mention of recent spats between Turkey and the West over Syria and the purchase of a Russian S-400 air defence system.
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Israel already deploys the Harop, an autonomous anti-radiation drone which can fly for up to six hours, attacking only when an enemy air-defence radar lights up.
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Mr Erdogan has agreed to buy S-400 air-defence systems from Russia, despite American warnings that the purchase would make Turkey ineligible to buy F-35 jets.
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Western powers were concerned about Russia's upgrades of air bases and air defence systems in Crimea - the peninsula it seized from Ukraine in 2014, the annual report said.
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The first parts of the S-400 air defence system were flown to the Murted military air base northwest of Ankara on Friday, sealing Turkey's deal with Russia.
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"Today we are starting to equip Poland with the most modern mid-range air defence system in the world," Poland's President Andrzej Duda said at the signing ceremony.
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It says it will not abide by the verdict, and is reported to be planning to declare an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the South China Sea.
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A Saudi-led coalition said overnight that Riyadh's air defence had intercepted a missile which Houthis said was aimed at storage tanks belonging to Saudi Aramco oil company.
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In Seoul, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said five Chinese military planes were spotted entering the Korean Air Defence Identification Zone, and fighter jets scrambled in response.
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The draft also shows Hanoi is pushing for a ban on any new Air Defence Identification Zone - something Beijing unilaterally announced over the East China Sea in 2013.
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The Russian Defence Ministry said at the time that "not a single air defence missile launcher of the Russian Armed Forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border".
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Columns of tanks followed the troops as did the advanced S-400 air defence missile system which is deployed in Syria to protect the Russian air base there.
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On Friday, Saudi Arabia's air defence forces intercepted five drones launched by Houthis at Abha airport and the city of Khamis Mushait, a Saudi-led coalition spokesman said.
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They include Quebec-based Discovery Air Defence Services, which provides combat training for the Canadian air force and has teamed up to bid with UK military services provider Inzpire.
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Two Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday, the South Korean defence ministry said.
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But the downing was enough to provoke a further wave of attacks by Israel, this time aimed at Syrian air-defence batteries and Iranian military targets on Syrian soil.
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America has threatened to withhold delivery of 100 F-35 fighter jets to Turkey unless Mr Erdogan's government shelves its purchase of theS-400 air-defence system from Russia.
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They point out that Turkey has also signed a deal with Eurosam, a European consortium building air-defence missiles, and that the S-400 may be just a stopgap.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday the United States would consider any Chinese establishment of an air defence zone over the South China Sea "provocative and destabilising".
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The partnership should bring together Raytheon's market-leading position in air-defence systems and guided missiles with Rheinmetall's expertise in combat and defence systems, army weapons and munitions, they said.
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Jeddah for example: there is a land, total area about five million square metres, right on the beach front, in the heart of Jeddah, it's owned by the air defence.
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The governor's dismissal comes just days before Turkey is expected to take delivery of Russian air defence systems, triggering likely U.S. sanctions which could put the lira under renewed pressure.
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Shoigu said the Russian Navy would also get two advanced new frigates armed with cruise missiles and a new type of air defence missile system by the end of 2020.
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None of the air strikes hit zones where Russian air defence systems protect the Russian bases of Tartus and Hmeimim, Russian news agencies cited the Ministry of Defence as saying.
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In another step that could further strain ties with NATO ally the United States, Turkey took delivery on Tuesday of a second batch of Russian S-400 air defence equipment.
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"We have no reason to not believe the reports we have seen from different NATO allies... that the plane may have been downed by Iranian air defence systems," he said.
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Simultaneously, Russia has invested in several technologies that give its potential foes serious concern, including air defence systems that would make it extremely difficult for Western air forces to operate.
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And when Syrian air-defence batteries responded with a salvo of missiles, they shot down a Russian spy-plane, flying over the Mediterranean, with the loss of 15 crew on board.
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The assumption then was that Turkey would go with MEADS (medium extended air defence system), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin, an American defence company, and MBDA, a European missile consortium.
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The incident distressed the Soviet Air Defence Forces, not because it had shot down a civilian airliner, but rather that it had gotten so far into Soviet airspace before being intercepted.
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Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks after South Korea said two Chinese bombers and two Russian bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday.
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ISTANBUL, July 12 (Reuters) - The Turkish lira was 1.3% weaker against the dollar on Friday over U.S. sanction worries, after Russia delivered S-3.33 air defence missile system parts to Turkey.
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China is widely expected one day to declare an "air defence identification zone" over the sea, as it has over parts of the East China Sea, including areas contested with Japan.
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Xinhua said the commissioning of the Nanchang, which is equipped with air-defence, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons, represented a "generational leap" in the Chinese navy&aposs destroyers.
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 20 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defence force has intercepted two Iranian-made Houthi missiles in Mecca province, a statement from the kingdom's embassy in Washington said on Monday.
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The Russian aircraft were believed to be military bomber jets and spent more than three hours in the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone, the South Korean joint chiefs of staff told Reuters.
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Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday and said Trump took a "reasonable" stance regarding Turkey's planned purchase of a Russian air defence missile system.
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Turkey began taking delivery of the advanced Russian air defence system earlier this month, prompting the United States to remove NATO ally Turkey from the F-35 jet programme over security concerns.
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"Not a single air defence missile launcher of the Russian Armed Forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border," Russia's TASS news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying in a statement.
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Romania's Aerostar SA on behalf of the economy ministry and U.S. company Raytheon International Defence System signed memorandum regarding cooperation on equipment and components for the multi-level air defence integrated system.
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Much attention has been focused around the potential establishment of an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) for the South China Sea, which would require international aircraft to identify themselves to Chinese authorities.
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Turkey's lira made nominal moves, but its dollar-denominated government bonds came under pressure on concern that Washington could impose sanctions on Ankara over its purchase of a Russian air defence system.
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Syria's air defence system, which mostly consists of systems made in the Soviet Union, has intercepted 71 of the missiles fired on Saturday by the U.S., British and French forces, he added.
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"When the United States (or any air force) conducts strikes against a country that has air defence systems, those systems are often hit at the outset to clear the way," Bronk wrote.
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The strikes hit air-defence systems and other military positions in the Houthi-controlled city, days after the Houthis launched a missile attack on a Saudi airport, according to the TV report.
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Tehran unveiled on Sunday a new "domestically-produced" air defence system with the capability to trace six targets - including fighetr jets, bombers and drones at the same time and destroy them with missiles.
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But the downing was enough to provoke a further wave of attacks by Israel, this time aimed at Syrian air-defence batteries and what Israel claimed were "Iranian military targets" on Syrian soil.
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The first requirement would be to suppress North Korea's surprisingly lethal integrated air-defence system, which fields, along with Soviet-era surface-to-air missiles, the indigenously produced and highly capable KN-06.
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The governor's dismissal comes just days before Turkey is expected to take delivery of Russian air defence systems, a development likely to trigger U.S. sanctions, which could put the lira under renewed pressure.
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Further, after the satellite launch South Korea began talks with America on deploying an advanced missile-defence system, the Terminal High-Altitude Air Defence platform (THAAD), meant to destroy missiles from the North.
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Even if China stopped short of formally declaring an Air Defence Identification Zone, known as an ADIZ, Beijing's need to protect its new airstrips and other facilities could see it effectively operating one.
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He was speaking in a phone call with British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson after Saudi air defence forces intercepted a ballistic missile they said was fired towards Riyadh on Saturday by the Houthis.
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Before the ruling, there had been talk that it might set up an Air Defence Identification Zone over all or part of the South China Sea, requiring all aircraft to identify their location.
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MOSCOW, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Qatar is in talks with Moscow to buy Russian S-400 missile air defence systems, Tass state news agency quoted the Qatari ambassador to Russia as saying on Thursday.
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South Korea said that Russian and Chinese planes had penetrated its self-declared Korean Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ), an area around its borders where it requires foreign planes to notify it of entry.
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Iran's air force may be dilapidated—it flies F-14 fighters from the "Top Gun" era—but since 2017 it has acquired four eight-launcher batteries of Russia's formidable S-300 air-defence system.
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Lockheed Martin, Germany's Diehl Defence, and Sweden's Saab on Monday launched at IDEX the Falcon air defence weapon system, billed as a replacement to the Hawk system used by countries in the Middle East.
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The Turkish lira inched 0.2% lower but avoided a steep sell-off in the wake of Turkey being ousted from the U.S. F-35 programme this week as it purchased Russian air defence systems.
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LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Turkey's dollar-denominated government bonds came under further pressure on Monday amid rising concerns that Washington could slap sanctions on Ankara over its purchase of a Russian air defence system.
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Russia's defence ministry has accused Ukraine of seeking to create a "nervous situation" and put its land-based and ship-borne air defence forces in Crimea on higher alert in response, Russian media reported.
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Raytheon hopes soon to sign a $5.6 billion deal with Poland to upgrade its Patriot missile-defence shield, while Lockheed and MBDA plan to ink a deal with Germany for their air-defence systems.
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On Sunday, Erdogan said that U.S. President Donald Trump has the authority to waive sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of Russian air defence systems and should find a "middle ground" in the dispute.
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Separately, Russia's Defence Ministry said the majority of missiles fired during the overnight attack on Syria by U.S., British and French forces were intercepted by Syrian government air defence systems, TASS news agency reported.
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It has upset America by buying a Russian air-defence system, and as a result has been pushed out of the F-35 fighter-jet programme, for fear that vital data would be compromised.
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The German defense ministry announced in 2015 that it had chosen the Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS) — developed with $4 billion in funding from Germany, Italy and the United States — over Raytheon Co's (RTN.
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The projectile reached Japan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) for the first time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a briefing, referring to an area of control designated by countries to help maintain air security.
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Longer term, Japan is evaluating whether to buy Lockheed Martin Corp's Terminal High Altitude Air Defence (THAAD) system, to add a middle layer to BMD, or build Aegis batteries on shore to bolster its defenses.
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A consequence of Sunday's launch is that South Korea is now almost certain to acquire the Terminal High-Altitude Air Defence (THAAD) system to add to the Aegis system it already deploys on naval destroyers.
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Interfax cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying the Israeli war planes had carried out the strikes from Lebanese air space, and that Syrian air defence systems had shot down five of eight missiles fired.
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Longer term, Japan is evaluating whether to buy Lockheed Martin Corp's Terminal High Altitude Air Defence (THAAD) system, to add a middle layer to BMD, or build Aegis batteries on shore to bolster its defences.
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Moscow has deployed advanced air defence missile system to Crimea and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday Moscow might be forced to cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine over the purported incident of sabotage.
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Sky Capture is a command and control system for anti-aircraft systems, which transforms the customer's legacy air defence systems by providing advanced fire control and detection radars and electro-optical sensors, the company said.
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The Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier, returning from exercises in the South China Sea, was not trespassing in Taiwan's territorial waters but entered its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in the southwest, Taiwan's defence ministry said.
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China drew condemnation from Japan and the United States in 2013 when it imposed an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea, in which aircraft are supposed to identify themselves to Chinese authorities.
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Turkey's Defence Ministry also cited Akar as saying Ankara was still assessing the bid to acquire U.S. Patriot air defence systems and that a deterioration of bilateral relations would not serve the interests of either country.
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And at the back of Najran's airport, the Americans have provided a battery of Patriot air-defence missiles to knock out the score of incoming SCUDs that Mr Saleh has fired at the kingdom's southern cities.
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NATO member Turkey has repeatedly said it is committed to buying the Russian missile defence system, despite warnings from the U.S.-led alliance that the S-400s cannot be integrated into the NATO air defence system.
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RIYADH, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has agreed to buy Russian S-400 air defence system, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday, on the sidelines of a visit by Saudi King Salman to Moscow.
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The U.S. Senate passed a bill last month including a measure that prohibits Turkey from buying F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets because of Brunson's imprisonment and Turkey's purchase of Russia's S-400 air defence system.
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An air defence laser weapon system, code-named LW-30 and developed by the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, was displayed at the Airshow China in the southern city of Zhuhai in 2018.
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Any progress on long-mulled Saudi plans to purchase the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems would cause disquiet in Washington, which is sending 3,000 troops and additional air defence systems to Saudi Arabia.
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Macron went on to contradict Trump's account of how Turkey had come to purchase a Russian air-defence system, and the two acknowledged they had problems to resolve over the tech tax and the tariffs threat.
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TEL AVIV, Oct 29 (Reuters) - State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said on Monday it received a contract worth $550 million with the army of an Asian country to provide its Sky Capture air defence system.
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ANKARA, June 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that he wanted the issue over Ankara's procurement of air defence systems to be resolved without damaging bilateral ties, the Turkish presidency said.
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VILNIUS, May 27 (Reuters) - Lithuania seeks to acquire the NASAMS medium-range air defence system developed by Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen and U.S. defence contractor Raytheon , the Baltic state's defence minister told the BNS news agency on Friday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea summoned the Chinese ambassador on Tuesday to lodge a complaint over a Chinese military aircraft entering the South's air defence territory, the second such incident this year, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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The Chinese aircraft flew for more than four hours inside South Korea's air defence identification zone (KADIZ) on Tuesday, prompting the South to scramble multiple fighter jets to track it, a South Korean defence official told Reuters.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defence forces intercepted a ballistic missile over Riyadh on Wednesday, state media said, after at least three blasts were heard and three clouds of smoke were seen in the sky above the capital.
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When an Israeli F-16 fighter jet, on its way home from the raid, was brought down by a salvo of Syrian air-defence missiles, Israel hit back by destroying around a third of Syria's anti-aircraft batteries.
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Russia said it does not recognise South Korea's air defence identification zone, known as KADIZ, while China said the area where Tuesday's patrol occurred was not territorial airspace and that all countries enjoyed freedom of movement in it.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defence forces intercepted a drone armed with explosives which had been launched by Yemen's Houthis and aimed at an airport in the south of the kingdom, state news agency SPA said on Sunday.
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Weapons displayed on Red Square included Russia's Yars mobile intercontinental nuclear missile launcher, its Iskander-M ballistic missile launchers, and its advanced S-400 air defence missile system, which Moscow has deployed in Syria to protect its forces.
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KIEV, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Ukraine was due to start two days of missile tests on Thursday - a move that has angered Russia, prompting it to put its air defence forces on high alert on the annexed Crimea peninsula.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A submarine-launched ballistic missile fired by North Korea on Wednesday flew about 500 km (300 miles), South Korea's military said, and South Korean news agency Yonhap said it fell inside Japan's Air Defence Identification Zone.
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The collapse of the latest Syria ceasefire has heightened the possibility that Gulf states might arm Syrian rebels with man-portable air defence systems, or MANPADS, to defend themselves against Syrian and Russian warplanes, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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But at the same time, U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, raised the possibility that a Patriot missile battery could be deployed briefly to the Baltic region during upcoming U.S.-led summer exercises that focus on air defence.
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SEOUL, Feb 28 (Reuters) - South Korea summoned the Chinese ambassador on Tuesday to lodge a complaint over a Chinese military aircraft entering the South's air defence territory, the second such incident this year, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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Further escalation could be likely if China does more than ignore the ruling, and starts building on yet another contested shoal, or declares an Air Defence Identification Zone over a sea it seems to regard as a Chinese lake.
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He said he would discuss the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as a political solution in Syria, joint steps with Russia in Syria's Afrin region, and details of an S-400 air defence missile system deal.
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Taiwan has said the aircraft carrier skirted waters outside its air defence identification zone to its east and south and then headed across the top of the South China Sea to Hainan, home to a large Chinese naval base.
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The Ministry of Defence is still in talks over a deal to buy an air defence system from with Lockheed Martin's MEADS despite having approached rival U.S. group Raytheon about its Patriot system, Dziennik quoted the deputy defence minister as saying.
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The Chinese jets flew north to south and entered the Miyako Strait around Japan's southern islands as well as the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan, but did not enter Taiwan's air defence identification zone, Taiwan's defence ministry said in a statement.
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BRUSSELS, June 25 (Reuters) - The United States cannot allow Turkey to fly or help produce its F-35 stealth jets if Ankara goes ahead with the purchase of a Russian air defence system, America's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
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The F-22 and the F-35 are designed to project US air power both offensively and defensively in contested airspaces, penetrating Integrated Air Defence Systems (IADS) and engaging air and ground targets with minimum detection risk and maximum survivability.
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JERUSALEM, July 28 (Reuters) - Israel's U.S.-backed Arrow-3 air defence system, billed as a bullwark against the ballistic missiles fielded by Iran and Syria, has passed a live interception test in Alaska, the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
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SpaceX won a $290 million contract to launch three GPS satellites for the USAF by the end of 2020, the Wall Street Journal reports, and the ULA will receive $351 to launch two space craft from the air defence agency.
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There has been speculation that China might declare an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the South China Sea, similar to one it declared over the East China Sea in late 2013, to anger from Japan and the United States.
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This would be the strongest signal yet that Ankara cannot have both the advanced aircraft and Russia's S-400 air defence system and follows a heightening of tensions with Washington last year that spurred a sell-off in the lira.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's air defence may have shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Teheran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.
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One of NATO's top commanders stressed that the debate about the alliance's role was not a theoretical one, given the powerful Russian air defence systems in the Baltic region, in Crimea and in Syria that could limit NATO's freedom of movement.
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The country's biggest arms firm, Almaz-Antey, did indeed enjoy an 18% jump in sales between 2017 and 2018, thanks partly to the export of the S-400 air-defence system, not least to American friends like Turkey and India.
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After meeting U.S. President Donald Trump last weekend in Japan on the sidelines of a G20 summit, Erdogan said Ankara would be spared damaging U.S. sanctions once Russia's S-400 air defence system started arriving in Turkey in the coming days.
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MOSCOW, Feb 7 (Reuters) - An Airbus A320 with 172 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Russia-controlled Khmeimim air base after Syrian air defence nearly hit it, Russian state news agency RIA said on Friday citing Russian defence ministry spokesman.
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That creates a dilemma for America, which hopes soon to sell weapons worth $6bn to India, but is dismayed by that country's determination to acquire S-400 air-defence systems from Russia: missiles that could ward off potential threats from China or Pakistan.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will in 2019 deploy the S-350 Vityaz new generation short-to-mid range surface-to-air defence missile complex, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday, in a long-planned move to replace its ageing S-300 system.
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FARNBOROUGH, England, July 11 (Reuters) - Raytheon Co on Monday said it saw bright prospects for continued sales of its Patriot air defence missile systems, citing strong interest among its 13 operator countries in adding a 360-degree AESA radar to their existing systems.
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For more on the company, click on Poland will on Tuesday sign a letter of intent to buy the NASMS medium-range air defence system in a deal that could exceed 10 billion Norwegian crowns ($1.20 billion), Norway's TV2 reported on Monday.
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The 26 September news website quoted a senior source in the Yemeni army command as saying that the helicopter came down "as a result of a misreading of the air defence system which resulted in the destruction of the plane before it landed".
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - The German military is to buy new, more capable air defence radar systems for three F-124 frigates, paving the way for the ships to become part of NATO's broader missile defence system, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
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ISTANBUL, July 12 (Reuters) - Turkey took its first deliveries of the Russian S-400 air defence system on Friday, a development likely to trigger U.S. sanctions on Ankara and escalate tensions between Turkey and its Western partners in the NATO military alliance.
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A domestically built long-range, surface-to-air missile air defence system, the Bavar-373, which Iranian media have described as a competitor to the Russian S-300 missile system, was also on display, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
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Developed in the nineties and refined with lessons from the 20063 Kosovo war, it is intended to provide an integrated air defence that would prevent U.S. or other forces from seizing air superiority as quickly as they did in Kosovo or the two Gulf wars.
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The first parts of the S-400 air defence system were flown to a military air base near the capital Ankara, a move expected to trigger U.S. sanctions against a NATO ally and drive a wedge into the heart of the Western military alliance.
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And tension with Ukraine is escalating over Russian claims that Ukraine attempted to stage a terrorist attack in Crimea; Russia deployed powerful S-400 air defence systems to Crimea, while Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, warned that diplomatic relations with Ukraine could be severed.
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DOHA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Saudi air defence forces shot down a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi militia toward Khamees Mushait city in the kingdom's southwest on Tuesday night, a Saudi-led coalition said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.
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LE BOURGET, Paris, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar remain in contact about Ankara's plans to buy a Russian air defence system, and may meet during NATO meetings in Brussels next week, NATO's commander told Reuters.
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After days of denying a role in the plane crash, the Guards, a parallel military force answering directly to Khamenei that acts as guardian of the clerical system, finally admitted one of its air defence operators mistakenly shot down Ukraine Airlines International flight 752.
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MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Russia showcased its modernised military war machine in a grand parade on Moscow's Red Square on Monday, displaying the advanced air defence missile system used to protect its base in Syria and some of the jets that have flown missions there.
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DUBAI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has requested help from South Korea to strengthen the country's air defence system after attacks on two oil plants initially halved the country's oil production, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.
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The missiles arrived in the past week and, according to a U.S. official, appeared to show the HQ-9 air defence system, which has a range of 125 miles (200 km) and would pose a threat to any airplanes flying close by, the report said.
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TAIPEI, June 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan's new defence minister said on Monday the island would not recognise any air defence zone declared by China over the South China Sea, as the island's top security agency warned such a move could usher in a wave of regional tension.
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No indication available A proposal by European missiles maker MBDA, part-owned by Airbus, to develop and build a new air defence system for Germany came in billions of euros higher than the previous estimate of 4 billion euros, several people familiar with the matter said.
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Should an air-defence radar lock on to it with malicious intent, though, the drone will follow the radar signal to its source and the warhead nestled in its bulbous nose will blow the drone, the radar and any radar operators in the vicinity to kingdom come.
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To prevent America from operating close to China's shore, a bristling arsenal of land-based air-defence and anti-ship missiles, along with fast missile boats, missile submarines and maritime strike aircraft, would attack US Navy vessels, as well as at US bases in Guam and Japan.
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Any progress on long-mulled Saudi plans to purchase the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems would cause disquiet in Washington, which announced over the weekend it was sending around 3,000 troops and additional air defence systems to Saudi Arabia following last month's attack.
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The Royal Saudi Air Defence Forces destroyed the missile before it could cause any damage, according to the statement by the coalition, which since March 2015 has been fighting the Houthis to try to restore the Saudi-backed government of exiled president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
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U.S. General Tod Wolters said the military-to-military relationship between the United States and NATO remained "absolutely, positively solid," despite Washington's decision to cancel Turkey's purchase of F-35 stealth fighters if it proceeds with its purchase of the Russian S-400 air defence system.
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Regional military attaches say they are now bracing for China's next moves, which some fear could be the first deployment of jet fighters to the Spratlys or an attempt to enforce an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) similar to one Beijing created off its eastern coast in 2013.
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Last year, against the protests of its NATO allies, Turkey took delivery of a state-of-the-art Russian S-400 air defence system, and there has also been talk of Ankara purchasing Russian fighter jets after being suspended from the U.S.-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme.
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Charles Brown, commander of US Pacific Air Forces, said US warplanes — including bombers, U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and RQ-4 Global Hawk drones — regularly conducted "freedom of navigation" operations over the disputed waters despite China&aposs deployment of air defence facilities on artificial islands and reefs in the area.
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The South China Sea is home to some of the world&aposs busiest trade routes and is claimed by a number of countries in the region, including China, which has built military outposts with airfields, naval harbours on its artificial islands, and deployed air defence radars and missiles there.
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U.S. officials have expressed concern that an international court ruling expected in coming weeks on a case brought by the Philippines against China over its South China Sea claims could prompt Beijing to declare an air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, as it did over the East China Sea in 2013.
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While Vietnam has recently obtained submarines equipped with land-attack missiles, advanced air defence radars and state-of-the-art jet fighters from other nations, it was likely to seek advanced surveillance and intelligence systems from the United States, said Collin Koh, a military expert at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
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In the air, America may try to degrade an adversary's integrated air-defence systems (IADs) by interfering with their sensors and control systems, then send out networked swarms of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to inflict further damage before deploying penetrating long-range stealth bombers such as the B2 and the new B21.
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But the Royal Saudi Air Defence Forces destroyed the missile before it could cause any damage, according to the statement by the coalition, which since March 2015 has been fighting the Houthis and launching air strikes across Yemen to try to restore the Saudi-backed government of exiled President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
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It will retain its naval presence in Tartus; at least a dozen fast jets will continue to fly from its air base near Latakia; about 1,000 military advisers and special forces will stay; and the recently-installed S-400 air defence system covering the north-west of the country will also be kept in place.
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"The Supreme Leader said ...the air defense units were a very sensitive part of the armed forces and on the front line of confronting the enemy, and emphasized the need to increase their readiness and capabilities," the website said in its report on the gathering, which was held to mark Iran's Air Defence Day.
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