The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has decided that the JASSM-ER missile is the platform to fit the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) payload.
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CHAMP allows a warplane to launch a standoff attack on the enemy’s electronics systems with bursts of high-power microwave energy.
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The Royal Armed Forces of Morocco said in a statement carried by state news agency MAP that a F-16 pilot missing in Yemen has died.
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The jet went missing on May 10 and footage of the wreckage has since emerged.
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A spokesman from the Australia Department of Defense has clarified that Assistant U.S. defense secretary David Shear had ‘misspoke’ on the deployment of B-1 bombers to Australia during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
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“We are aware of the comments made by a U.S. official in Congressional testimony overnight. The U.S. government has contacted us to advise that the official misspoke.”
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There are four trainee pilots taking the current class at Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Introductory Fighter School, one of them is a Qantas captain who took unpaid leave to try make the cut as a fighter pilot.
By Robert Frola (Flickr) [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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President Barack Obama has nominated Gen. Mark A. Milley as the next Army chief of staff, and Adm. John M. Richardson as the next chief of naval operations.
DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett
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The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 48 UGM-84L Harpoon Block II missiles to Japan.
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The long awaited deal to sell 145 M777 howitzers to the Indian Army has finally been approved by the Modi government.
By Sgt. Jose E. GuillenShimgray at en.wikipedia (USMC website (direct link)) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
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Taiwan has revealed the deployment of the PAC-3 air defense system and the battalion taking care of the weapon system.
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The government-owed Youth Daily News published the report on May. 13.
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Indonesia is working on a procurement plan with Japan to buy the ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious plane.
By Toshiro Aoki (http://jp-spotters.com/6032LL.html) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The Indonesian Ministry of Defense released a statement saying that Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu and Indonesia’s ambassador to Japan, Yusron Ihza Mahendra, discussed the plan on May 5.
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