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A Pentagon spokesman said that more than 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles had been fired from US and British ships and submarines in the Mediterranean, striking more than 20 integrated air-defence systems and other military facilities on the mainland.

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The system will initially be deployed on frigates to replace the Sea Wolf air-defence system, when it goes out of service in 2016, and could later be adapted for use by the army and the RAF.The contract has been awarded to the firm MBDA, a multinational group with more than 10,000 employees in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and United States.

MoD signs £500m missile defence deal 2012

Powerful explosions heard to the west of the capital were thought to be an attack on a radar station – part of the country's air-defence system.

Libya: Allied strikes sweep Libya as west intervenes in conflict 2011

The air-defence system, which is to go out of service in 2016, will be replaced by MBDA's Sea Ceptor.

MoD signs £500m missile defence deal 2012

Maybe (as a pure conjecture) in exchange for the Russians not selling air-defence systems to Iran?

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Iran expects Russia to deliver powerful S-300 air-defence missile systems within two months despite fierce objections from the United States and Israel.

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Again on 22 February, US warplanes strike Iraqi’s air-defence targets in northern Iraq.

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And only this week, we learnt that an updated version of this idea was becoming available, an air-defence Humvee converted to the "gun truck" role (pictured above left).

We've been there before Richard 2006

Conspicuously absent from the newspaper, however, is the news for which The Times and many others find room – that Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air-defence missile systems to Iran, confirming that it is proceeding with arms deals despite Western criticism.

The window is closing Richard 2006

Hezbollah, the Iranian/Syrian proxy force, has also been put on notice that the air-defence system it boasted would alter the strategic balance in the region is impotent in the face of Israeli technology.

‘So close to war’ 2007