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A Department of Defense official on Wednesday strongly urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to quickly approve the request of Finland and Sweden to join NATO. "The Department of Defense assesses that Finland and Sweden are ready for NATO membership," Celeste A
The Chinese Ministry of National Defense said it carried out a land-based, mid-course antiballistic missile (ABM) technical test June 19. Conducted at night within the Chinese border, the test reached its desired objective
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) delivered Lockheed Martin with the first sets of F-16 aerostructures manufactured at IAI's recently reopened assembly line, including the F-16 Conformal Fuel Tanks. In addition, the 200th F-35 fighter aircraft wing set, produced by IAI, was also delivered
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Russia could exchange prisoners from Ukraine's Azov battalion for the “dark prince” of Ukrainian politics, Viktor Medvedchuk, close to President Vladimir Putin. "We are going to study the possibility," Leonid Slutsky, a senior member of Russia's negotiating team on Ukraine said Saturday, speaking from the separatist city of Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine, reports said, citing state-owned RIA Novosti
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A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet was destroyed in an air battle near Slavyansk, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a regular press briefing on Monday. Konashenkov however did not reveal whether the MiG-29 was shot down by Russian aircraft or air defense systems Slavyansk is a city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast
A Russian Angara rocket launched a satellite “in the interests of the Russian defense ministry” on Friday. The ministry told reporters today that the satellite, launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Archangelsk Region, has been successfully put to the final orbit