Government of Kazakhstan has suspended flight authorisation for local operator Bek Air following the fatal Fokker 100 crash at Almaty, on Friday. Ninety-three passengers and five crew members were onboard flight Z92100 enroute to Nur-Sultan city, when it lost height after take-off and crashed into a concrete wall and subsequently a two-storey building, Kazakh ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development said in a statement on December 27
The Pakistan Navy test fired air-defence, anti-ship, and other missiles from its aircraft, ships and submarines in the north Arabian Sea and at Makran Coast on Friday. The Navy's warships and airplanes fired anti-ship missiles at sea level
Israel Ministry of Defense has awarded Rafael a multi-billion shekel contract to provide the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with intelligence systems. The contract is for work over an estimated 20 years and includes developing and supplying intelligence gathering systems, command and control systems and more
Armenia received first of the Su-30SM fighter jets it ordered from Russia earlier this year, on Friday. "Our most important acquisition this year," Armenias Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan posted on his Facebook account, along with a video showing two Sukhoi jets flying above
The fourth Irkut MC-21-300 test airliner completed its maiden flight on Wednesday, December 25. The aircraft, with test registration 73056, departed from the airfield of Irkutsk Aviation Plant, located in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia, Russia
Boeing has won a contract valued over $560 million to remanufacture 47 existing AH-64D Apache helicopters of three unnamed allied countries. “Boeing and the US Army have finalized orders from three nations to provide their armed forces with the new, more capable AH-64E Apache model
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has set up a new office in Pakistan, weeks after Islamabad hosted a Turkish defense exhibition on its soil for the first time. "We have launched our new office at Pakistan's National Science & Technology Park
The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have taken the delivery of two weapon carrier vehicles, Kaplan and Pars, at a ceremony held at FNSS Defense Systems facility in the Gölbaşı district, Ankara, on Wednesday. The Turkish Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) awarded FNSS Defense Systems a contract for 260 vehicles- 76 Pars 4×4 and 184 Kaplan ATVS, in June 2016
Algeria is likely to buy 12 Su-57 fighters with an option to procure 12 more, from Russia. “Algeria is currently in fairly active negotiations with Russia to acquire 12 Su-57 fighters with the possibility of increasing the order to 24 combat aircraft,” sources were quoted as saying by Russias
Russian Aerospace Forces will receive a “large” number of Su-57 stealth fighters in 2020 as per schedule, brushing aside speculations that the first Su-57 crash on Tuesday could derail the delivery schedule. "The first large-scale deliveries of the fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft will begin in 2020