North Korea has executed a vice premier Kim Yong-Jin for dozing off during a meeting presided over by the countrys Supreme leader Kim Jong-Un. The governement has also banished two other officials for re-education, various local media in South Korea reported Wednesday
Iran has released images of its first indigenous long-range missile defense system. The images on local news agencies showed President Hassan Rouhani and Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan standing in front of the new Bavar 373 missile defense system
The Indian Ministry of Defense has approved buying one C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft for INR 900 crore (US $134 million). The Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by defense minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday made a decision to buy the aircraft which, will replace another C-130J aircraft that crashed while practising a tactical operation after taking off from Agra on March 28, 2014
The Indian Air Force will get a new airfield this Friday capable of fielding all types of aircraft in the eastern region barely 100 km bordering China. “The refurbished advanced landing ground at Pasighat in south east Arunachal Pradesh is as good as new, with a complete airstrip,”
Saab has signed a $25 million contract with the Australian Defence Force to upgrade the Armys RBS 70 ground-based air defence weapon system and Giraffe AMB radar. Delivered under the AIR 90 programme, the existing Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) capability of the RBS 70 and Giraffe AMB systems will be upgraded to include Mode 5 functionality
Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) has raised concerns over the delay by the defense ministry in signing contracts even after the products have cleared the trials. IWI executives were quoted as saying by
The Italian Coast Guard has ordered two additional AW139 aircraft from Leonardo-Finmeccanica. This latest contract will increase the customer's fleet of AW139s to twelve
Pakistani Air Force F-16 combat jets are taking part in a US military exercise held in Nellis Air Force base, Nevada later this month. The Aviationist magazine reported that six Pakistani AFF16C/D Block 52+ combat jets has already arrived in the United States to take part in the Green Flag and Red Flag exercises at Nellis
Indias only aircraft carrier capable aircraft, the MiG-29K suffers from an unsatisfactory serviceability rate ranging from 15.93 per cent to 37
General Dynamics has been awarded an $18.9 million contract modification for the continued development of the Virginia Payload Module (VPM)