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South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced, on 12 December, that deliveries of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptor missiles and upgraded ground equipment, to the Republic of Korea Air Force (RoKAF), have been completed amid Seoul’s efforts to enhance the country’s air defenses to counter North Korea’s growing ballistic missile capabilities.

The agency said that deliveries of the upgraded air-defense systems were completed in November – 10 months ahead of schedule – under a Patriot capability enhancement programme launched in March 2015, and carried out in close co-operation with the United States and South Korean companies.

DAPA said that the detection range of the PAC-3’s radar system is twice that of the RoKAF’s previously-deployed PAC-2 system, adding that the PAC-3 can also track and engage more targets simultaneously…

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