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Sweden: Patriot anti-aircraft missiles from the US for defense from Russia

A step that brings Stockholm closer to NATO

The government of Sweden has given the green light to the agreement with Raytheon to buy -through the program for sales of weapons abroad in the United States- the anti-aircraft missile defense system Patriot. An authorization arrived yesterday -as announced by the Ministry of Defense- and which will bring the Swedish armed forces to have this system in 2025, after which in November 2017 it had been...

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Stockholm, Sweden, 08/03/2018 12:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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