China is developing several types of variants of Y-20 large transport aircraft, including an aerial tanker and early warning aircraft. One or more Y-20 aircraft variant is expected to debut this year
The Zambian Air Force has taken delivery of a new Gulfstream G650 VIP transport aircraft from Israel. The aircraft arrived in the Zambian capital Lusaka via Israel late last month
Qatar signed a deal for Turkeys first indigenously-made main battle tank, the Altay, on Tuesday. “According to the agreement, Qatar will buy up to 100 tanks from Turkey and 40 of them will be delivered to the Gulf country in the first phase,” Ali İhsan Yavuz, Vice Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) told Daily Sabah
Boeing has been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX for the past several months and in the aftermath of Lion Air Flight 610 crash “designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer.” This includes updates to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight control law, pilot displays, operation manuals and crew training
French Ministry of Defences aircraft carrier project launched in October last year could be a project that all countries belonging to the European Union (EU) could jointly work on. France launched an 18-month long study worth €40 million ($45 million) for the eventual future replacement of the countrys aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle after 2030
Norwegian company Kongsberg has won a contract from Japan to supply Joint Strike Missiles (JSM) for the countrys fleet of F-35 fighter aircraft. The JSM development started in 2008 and was completed in mid-2018 after a series of successful validation test firings, the company said in a statement
India inked a deal to lease a mothballed nuclear-powered Akula-1 class submarine from Russia for over $3 billion (INR 21,000 crore) on Thursday. The
Indias Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has revived the production of anti-aircraft guns at its facility in West Bengal state. “The anti-aircraft guns were first manufactured in the 1960s but production was discontinued due to lack of demand
China has announced an increase of 7.5 percent from 2018 in its defense budget for 2019
India is likely to sign $3 billion worth inter-governmental agreement to lease another Akula class nuclear submarine from Russia later this week. The submarine hulls will be mothballed at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk would undergo a deep refit and rebuild, to be fitted with Indian sensors, operation room electronics, and communication equipment before being delivered to India in or before 2025,