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India Carries Out Inaugural Flight Of Indigenous Trainer Aircraft HTT-40
June 17, 2016 @ 07:30 AMIndia carried out the inaugural flight of its indigenous basic trainer aircraft, Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40) today. Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar witnessed the inaugural flight carried out at Bangalores HAL unit
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Russia To Provide Equipment For Egypt’s Mistral-Class Helicopter Carriers
June 16, 2016 @ 01:52 PMRussian equipment is likely to be made available for Egypts Mistral-class helicopter carriers delivered by France. "It is likely that since the deal [on the Mistral delivery] between Egypt and France has been signed and the warship delivery is ongoing, with one [warship] already there and the other one arriving a little bit later, the decision [on the supply of Russian equipment] will be made, the equipment must work," Rosoboronexport Deputy Director General Igor Sevastyanov was quoted as saying by
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Pakistan Ahead Of India, Israel and North Korea In Nuclear Warheads: SIPRI
June 14, 2016 @ 05:51 AMAccording to a study published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its annual nuclear forces data, Pakistan still has higher number of nuclear warheads than India and also beats Israel and North Korea. The report comes just days after disgraced nuclear scientist AQ Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, claimed that the country had the ability to hit India in five minutes
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Saab Receives Additional BT46 Training Systems Order From Finnish Army
June 13, 2016 @ 03:54 PMSaab has signed a contract with the Finnish Defence Forces for the delivery of BT46 training systems to the Finnish Army. In 2015 the Finnish Defence Forces ordered 100 Leopard 2A6 MBTs from the Dutch Army which included BT46 training systems from Saab Training & Simulation
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US Navy, Northrop Grumman Complete Design Review Of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot...
June 8, 2016 @ 01:17 PMThe US Navy and Northrop Grumman Corporation have completed the critical design review of a robotic system for explosive ordnance disposal. The robot for increment one of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System (AEODRS) program is back-packable and weighs less than 35 pounds, the company said in a statement Tuesday
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Irkut To Roll-Out First MC-21 Aircraft For Flight Tests This Week
June 6, 2016 @ 12:17 PMIrkut Corporation will roll-out the first MC-21 aircraft designated for flight tests on Wednesday. “Construction of the first aircraft is the significant milestone of the MC-21 program
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Peru Signs Elbit and ThyssenKrupp For U209-class Submarines Upgrade
June 3, 2016 @ 03:08 PMSIMA Peru has signed contracts with Elbit Systems and ThyssenKrupp to modernize its four U209-1200 submarines. The upgrade project was initiated in 2015
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US Drones Killed Over 200 Children In Pakistan
June 3, 2016 @ 09:55 AMThe Obama administration has been accused of killing civilians in drone strikes carried out to nab down al Qaeda and other radical groups reported to have a base in Pakistan. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif in a meeting with United States Ambassador to Pakistan, David Hale, on May 25, 2016, expressed concerns over the US drone strike in Balochistan on May 23rd in which Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was reportedly killed, The Express Tribune
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Gripen, Rafale, Typhoon On Malaysian MRCA Wishlist
June 2, 2016 @ 03:20 PMMalaysia is in the final stages of studying companies that meet the Royal Malaysian Air Force's (RMAF's) multirole combat aircraft (MRCA) requirement to replace its ageing MiG-29 fighter aircraft. "We are now in the final stages of studying which of the companies are able to meet with our requirements and the decision to be made is not for a short term, RMAF chief, Tan Sri Roslan Saad was quoted as saying by Malaysia Digest during the RMAF 58th anniversary at Kuantan Air Base Tuesday
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DCNS Delivers First Of Two Mistral-Class Helicopter Carriers To Egypt
June 2, 2016 @ 01:41 PMDCNS delivered the first of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers christened ‘Gamal Abdel Nasser' to the Egyptian Navy today. The two helicopter carriers were acquired by Egypt in October 2015
U.K. Drops Order for Apple to Build Backdoor to Encrypted Data
Saab Acquires Swedish Supplier Deform To Secure Submarine Supply Chain
Trilateral U.S.-Ukraine-Russia Meeting a Possibility: Trump
Russia Helping China Develop Command & Control System for Amphibious Operations
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
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...