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France to De-classify Polynesia Nuclear Test Archives
February 7, 2022 @ 03:32 AMA commission set up by the French government has decided to the declassify 34,598 documents, 433 photos and 43 films related to the French nuclear tests carried out from 1966 to 1996 in the Pacific Island of Polynesia. Under the new legislative framework, 90% of the documents appraised have thus received a favourable opinion on free communication
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Japan, S.Korea and U.S. to Conduct Trilateral Defense Ministerial
February 5, 2022 @ 05:38 AMThe U.S
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Russian Navy to Receive Special-purpose Sub with Nuclear-armed drones in Summer
January 26, 2022 @ 01:04 PMThe Russian Navy is set to receive The Project 09852 special-purpose nuclear-powered submarine Belgorod in the summer of 2022. "The delivery of the Belgorod nuclear-powered submarine to the Navy is scheduled for the summer of 2022
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U.S. F-35C Crashes While Landing on Supercarrier in South China Sea...
January 25, 2022 @ 06:15 AMSeven sailors were injured after an American F-35C Lightning II jet crashed on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson supercarrier in the South China Sea. The crash is the first for an F-35C, the Navy's variant of the single-engine stealth fighter, designed for operations off aircraft carriers
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Russian Navy Received Two Nuclear, One Large Diesel Submarine in Late 2021
January 21, 2022 @ 11:51 AMThe Russian Navy has received two nuclear and one large diesel submarine in the final quarter of 2021. The submarines delivered are the Project 885M nuclear-powered submarine Novosibirsk, the Project 955A nuclear-powered strategic sub Knyaz Oleg and the Project 636
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Ukrainian Army Orders RS-80 Unguided Air-to-Air Missiles
January 15, 2022 @ 11:43 AMA new contract has been signed between Artem State Joint-Stock Company, a subsidiary of Ukroboronprom and the Ukrainian defense ministry for the production of a large batch of unguided RS-80 air-to-air missiles. Under the current contract, the number of missiles is five times higher than the order that Artem fulfilled last year
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Modernized Russian Tu-160M Strategic Bomber Performs First Flight
January 12, 2022 @ 03:12 PMRussia's Tu-160M strategic bomber, the heavily modernized version of the Soviet era Tu-160 long range bomber, today undertook its first flight marking the potential of the aircraft to carry latest weapons such as hypersonic missiles. The aircraft took off from the airfield of the Kazan Aviation Plant, a Tupolev branch of the United Aircraft Corporation
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Fincantieri Starts Construction of Italian Navy’s First NFS Submarine
January 12, 2022 @ 05:39 AMProduction activities for the first of 2 new-generation submarines, as part of the U212NFS (Near Future Submarine) acquisition program of the Italian Navy, started January 11 at the Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard, Fincantieri has announced. The program, which also envisages relevant in-service support, an option for 2 additional units, as well as the creation of a Training Center, is led by OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Cooperation en matiere dArmement, the international organization for joint armament cooperation), in line with the most innovative management procedures, through life management and risk management
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U.S., Japan to Work on Counter-Hypersonic Technology
January 7, 2022 @ 06:47 AMThe United States and Japan will soon sign a deal on collaborating more closely in R&D of defense-related technologies, including ways to counter threats from hypersonic weapons. This was announced ahead of January 6-7 virtual U
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N.Korea Confirms it Tested ‘Hypersonic Missile’
January 6, 2022 @ 09:43 AMNorth Korea said it today it conducted tests of a hypersonic missile on Wednesday, three months after it launched a similar missile. The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party expressed “great satisfaction” at the results of the missile test observed by leading weapons officials
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