India has offered its Tejas Licght Combat Aircraft (LCA) to Sri Lankan Air Forces bid to replace its ageing Israeli Kfirs and MiG 27s. Tejas will be competing against Pakistans JF-17 fighter (a variant of Chinese FC-1 Xiaolong Fierce Dragon),” Sri Lankan Sunday Observer news website reported
The Indian Ministry of Defence has approved women as fighter pilots who will be inducted into the combat stream of the Indian Air Force from next year. Since their induction into the transport and Helicopter streams of the IAF, the womens performance has been ‘praiseworthy and on a par with their male counterparts, an MOD statement said today
Lockheed Martin has won a $176 million contract from the US Air Force for Sniper Advanced Targeting-Pod Sensor Enhancement kits. Sniper ATP-SE has improved sensors, a two-way datalink and algorithms that increase air-to-ground, air-to-air and maritime targeting capability, the company announced Friday
South Korea has set to manufacture components for USA's Global Hawk Unmanned aircraft systems( UAS). The Global Hawk drones deliver a broad overview and systematic intelligence of target areas by using high-resolution radar and long-range electro-optical and infrared sensors
Russia is working on upgrading the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system before delivery to Iran. "The Russian-built S-300 air defense system will be modernized before being delivered to Iran, given the fact that the original contract was struck a long time ago," said Vladimir Kozhin, President Vladimir Putins aide on military and technical cooperation, on Thursday to an Iranian news agency Press TV
Russia has planned to replace the flagship cruiser of the Navy's Northern Fleet, Pyotr Velikiy, with nuclear guided-missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov by 2020. "The Admiral Nakhimov is scheduled for maintenance," Navy Deputy Commander Rear Adm
Raytheon has won a $159.9 million contract from the US Navy to make Phalanx heavy machine guns that defend ships against incoming missiles
Malaysia has signed a US$126.8 million worth agreement to buy two Agusta Westland AW139 helicopters
Lockheed Martin has won a $176.1 million contracts from the US Air Force for Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod-Sensor Enhancement (ATP-SE) production and upgrade kits that will convert Sniper ATPs to the ATP-SE configuration
Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corporation has won a $53.1 million contract from the US Navy for a solid state laser (SSL) weapons demonstrator