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Flight Launch Of BrahMos Mounted Su-30MKI To Happen Soon
May 8, 2015 @ 01:26 PMBrahmos Aerospace officially revealed today that the flight trail of air version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Indian Air Forces Su-30MKI strike fighter will happen very soon. The air version of the supersonic missile is being readied and a trail from Su-30MKI will happen soon, the company said
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US Approves $130 Million Upgrade For Singapore's F-16s
May 8, 2015 @ 01:05 PMThe US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced Thursday that it has approved Singaporean F-16 Block 52 Upgrade Program for an estimated cost of $130 million. The Government of Singapore has requested a possible sale for the upgrade of 60 F-16C/D/D+ aircraft
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Pakistan’s MI-17 Helicopter Crashes Killing Foreign Ambassadors
May 8, 2015 @ 12:36 PMA Pakistan military helicopter, MI-17 which was carrying diplomats to the launch of projects in northern Pakistan crashed on Friday. The military helicopter crashed during an emergency landing in the mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan territory killing ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines and the wives of the ambassadors of Malaysia and Indonesia, various media reported Friday
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Indian Sukhoi-30MKI Fighters Have No Protective Shelters; Parliamentary Report
May 8, 2015 @ 11:48 AMThe Parliamentary Committee on Defense in a recent report has asked the ministry of defense to speed up the process of setting up hardened aircraft shelters for the Indian Air Force frontline combat aircraft, Sukhoi-30MKI, Indian Express reported Tuesday. “The committee is concerned to find that our Air Force, which is already short of planes and worse than that hardened shelters for the existing limited number of aircrafts are not available,” the report submitted in the parliament recently said
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Russia, China Set Up Leasing Company To Boost Sukhoi Superjet Sales In...
May 8, 2015 @ 10:15 AMRussia and China have signed an agreement today to set up a leasing company to support sales of Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft for an approximate US$ 3 billion in China and South-East Asia for the next three years, UAC Russia said in a release. The framework agreement was supported by the Russia-China Intergovernmental Commission
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36 Rafales Three Times More Costlier Than Under RFP
May 8, 2015 @ 09:20 AMEven as the Indian inter-governmental committee is being formed to negotiate the purchase of 36 Dassault Rafale aircraft from France, information floating about the price is of the order $ 7 billion. This works out to a per Rafale cost of $ 220 million, while informed sources say that negotiations under the 2007 Request for Proposal (RFP) was working out to be $ 70 million per aircraft including life cycle cost (LCC) at initially quoted price of $ 12 billion
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Thales To Equip French MRTT With TopShield-400 Antenna System
May 7, 2015 @ 02:18 PMThales announced today that it has been awarded contract for its new TopShield-400 Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna system (CRPA) for the future French Tanker. Thales will provide Airbus Defense & Space with its new GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna system TopShield-400 to equip the 12 MRTTs (multi-role transport tanker) ordered by the French Procurement Agency (DGA)
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Russian Improvised AK-74M To Be 50 Per Cent More Accurate
May 7, 2015 @ 01:28 PMRussian Kalashnikov Concern claims that new upgraded version of its AK-74 assault rifle allows 1.5 times combat effectiveness at a distance of up to 300 meters in different climatic conditions than the earlier version
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Gulf States Eye THAAD Buy Fearing Iranian Missiles
May 7, 2015 @ 11:59 AMMembers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman may create a collective regional missile defense system to counter Irans missile activities, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. “Heightened threat perceptions of Irans missile activities are spurring the move toward integrating the different systems to improve collective defense
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South Korea Unveils Sixth 1,800 Ton Class Attack Submarine
May 7, 2015 @ 10:54 AMSouth Korea unveiled its sixth 1,800-ton-class attack submarine Thursday aimed at boosting its underwater warfare capabilities against North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported. The Navy plans to commission the submarine in November 2016, it said
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Russian Drones Destroy US MAAWLR Air Defense System in Ukraine
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One Month Since U.S., Israeli War Against Iran: Who Is Gaining?
One month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28 the conflict has expanded...
Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) have shown their mettle in recent conflicts such as in Ukraine despite being increasingly vulnerable to...
European Nations Prioritizing Europe-made IRIS-T & SAMP-T over American Patriot Air Defense Systems?
European nations looking to procure new air defense systems appear to be giving the much-vaunted American Patriot a miss in...
Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles