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Chile Buying American for Air Defense

Chile Buying American for Air Defense

Avenger(click to view full) Chile presents interesting challenges for an air defense network. Its geography is long, thin, and extremely mountainous, which greatly complicates attempts at full coverage. Tensions over the last couple of decades have been centered on...

Chile Requests a Mechanized Artillery Battalion

Chile Requests a Mechanized Artillery Battalion

Latest updates: Clarity from BAE. Spanish M109A5,Brite Star 2001(click to view full) In June 2009, Chile's formal request to buy a variety of artillery-related systems and equip a new mechanized artillery battalion was cleared by the US state Department, and allowed...