The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLA Navy) recently tested ship-borne helicopters in live-fire drills in the South China Sea, to verify attacking targets at sea. During the exercise, two helicopters reached target area flying at a low altitude, avoiding radar detection and locked in on the target using radar while waiting for attack orders, a China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast showed on Tuesday
The Syrian Army has unveiled a new rocket system called the Golan-1000, built on a Russian T-72 chassis, currently in service with the armys 4th Armored Division. The new rocket system carries three massive 500 mm rounds, each packed with 500 kg of high-explosive fragmentation ammunition, Sputnik reports
Lockheed Martin has won $23.1 million contract from the U
Indias INS Arihant nuclear submarine equipped with a B-O5 Submarine Launched Strategic Missile (SLBM) capable of hitting targets with nuclear warheads at a range of 650 km is fully operational. The Indian Defense Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman made a formal announcement during the annual award ceremony of the Defence Research Development Organisation in New Delhi on Monday,
The US Air Force service will move to a single combat utility uniform, adopting the Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, already in use by the Army and Airmen in combat zones and in certain jobs across the Air Force. Starting Oct
Russian upgraded Tupolev Tu-22M3M strategic bomber along with a new Kh-32 cruise missile will enter services of the Russian Aerospace Forces long range aviation in October. "According to the existing plan, the first Tu-22M3M with the most advanced Kh-32 long-range cruise missile will go on combat duty in long-range aviation in October this year,"
CAE has won a contract to provide the US Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) with Contract Instruction Services (CIS) that will support the delivery of ground-based training to the United States Navy. Under terms of the five-year CNATRA CIS contract, which was awarded as a base contract with four one-year options, CAE USA will provide classroom and simulator instructors at five Naval Air Stations (NAS) to support primary, intermediate and advanced pilot training for the U
Taiwan will test mobile passive radar units this year to detect growing flight operations by China around the island. Two sets of mobile passive radar systems by National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) are going to be deployed for field testing at some point this year, a Ministry of National Defense official told Liberty Times Monday
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has given the go-ahead for the purchase of five Super-Etendards, a French carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft designed by Dassault-Breguet, for the Navy for an estimated amount of about 12 million euros, according to a report in French daily La Tribune. However, the report has stated that the Argentinian government is yet to make payments
BAE Systems has been awarded a £1.5bn contract for the seventh Astute class submarine and a further £900m for the next phase of the Dreadnought submarine programme for the Royal Navy