Two B-1B bombers under the command of US Pacific Air Forces have joined their counterparts from the Republic of Korea and Japanese air forces in sequenced bilateral missions in response to North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programs. This mission is in direct response to North Korea's escalatory launch of intercontinental...
US Vice President Mike Pence has raised the possibility of deploying Patriot anti-missile defense system in Estonia. "We spoke about it today, but we didn't talk about a date or time," Estonias Prime Minister Juri Ratas said after Pence began a visit to the small Baltic nation on the border with...
China has displayed its 10,000 kilometers range DF-31AG intercontinental ballistic missile, for the first time at a military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). China showed off the DF-31AG mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an upgrade to the DF-31A that was introduced in 2009
A MiG-21 fighter jet from General Khalifa Haftar's east Libyan militants has been shot down during bombing raid on Derna, a port city of the country. Apart from that two of its crews have been detained
Thirty per cent of India's locally built Akash surface-to-air missiles (SAM) supplied to the Indian Air Force are found to be faulty, the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG) has observed. About 30 per cent of "strategic missiles" made by BEL - a defence public sector unit - failed when they...
USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier has launched a F/A-18 Super Hornet for the first time on Friday, following years of setbacks and cost overruns on the next generation aircraft carrier
US Marine Corps has grounded its KC-130T aircraft, which was used for airborne refueling and to supply cargo, troops, equipments, following a crash that killed 15 Marines and one sailor. The Marine Corps took the action not to fly the KC-130T aircraft in the wake of the mishap on July 10 until further notice," the Corps said in a statement Thursday
Indonesia will deliver two NC-212i short takeoff and landing (STOL) medium transport aircraft to Philippine Air Force possibly in this third quarter. The delivery of Philippine Air Force's NC-212i STOL aircraft ordered from Indonesia's PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) may take place by end of this September,
Indias Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to delegate substantial financial powers to the Armed Forces for undertaking works for perimeter security of sensitive military installations. The decision will give powers to the three vice chiefs to spend at least Rs 800 crore (US$124
General Dynamics has won a US Geological Survey a 10 year $155 million contract to provide ground-based flight and mission operations support for the Landsat 8 satellite. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also develop and integrate a Landsat multisatellite operations facility at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland under the contract that has a five-year base term and five option years, the company said Thursday
France and Germany could develop a future European fighter jet to replace the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Dassault Rafale. The fighter program could expand from the current Anglo-French combat drone program
Lockheed Martin has test launched the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) surface-launch variant Wednesday from a topside canister. The flight test took place at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico