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 "title": "Estonia Receives Its First Diehl IRIS-T SLM Fire Unit at Ämari — the First of Three, and Its First Medium-Range Air Defence",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/estonia-first-iris-t-slm-fire-unit-amari-diehl-medium-range-air-defence/",
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 "type": "article",
 "published": "2026-06-22T17:08:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:54:32.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÄmari, 22 June 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Estonia received the first of three Diehl Defence IRIS-T SLM medium-range air-defence fire units at Ämari air base on 22 June 2026, with a handover ceremony the following day; the remaining two arrive in 2027\n * It is the first medium-range ground-based air defence Estonia has ever fielded — the system engages aircraft, helicopters and cruise missiles out to roughly 40 kilometres range and 20 kilometres altitude, above the short-range cover Esto",
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  "central-eastern-europe"
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 "sources": [],
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