Russian Navy Demos Air-Launched Cruise Missile Defense

As the U.S. military develops and deploys a host of new anti-ship cruise missiles, a Russian admiral says a MiG-31 demonstrated for the first time an ability to shoot down such a threat with an air-to-air missile. Adm. Sergey Avakyants, commander of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet, described the...

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