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 "title": "IRIS-T SLM Passes Bundeswehr System Certification on Crete — Heeresflugabwehrregiment 1 Stands Up on 7 December",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/iris-t-slm-system-certification-crete-heeresflugabwehrregiment-1-luneburg-7-december-two-fire-units-army-2028/",
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 "published": "2026-10-14T19:48:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-10-16T19:49:01.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrete, 14 October 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Flugabwehrraketengruppe 61 completed the system certification of Diehl Defence's IRIS-T SLM, radar, command post, launchers and missiles together, at the NATO range NAMFI on Crete during Spartan Arrow 26 on 14 October, with about 650 German and Swedish soldiers and about 300 vehicles; the defence ministry calls it the first live firing of the newly introduced system, and Boris Pistorius attended\n * Airbus: for the first time the Luftwaffe's I",
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