Images sent by Western satellites of Tinsukia Railway station where a rake had been lying below the surface was confused for an Indian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The images of the rake sent from sparsely populated Tinsukia hamlet, located in the Assam state close to the Indian border, piqued the curiosity of international satellites including US Landsat 8 that mistook it to be a secret, concealed mobile ICBM that India had been developing,
Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force, was killed in a US airstrike approved by President Trump in Baghdad in the early hours of Friday. As Trump enters an election year buoyed by improved economic data over the Obama years, the Soleimani hit may bolster his tough commander-in-chief credentials just as the Osama Bin Laden kill did to President Obama
Upto two pairs of Boeing Super Hornets, Eurofighter Typhoons, Lockheed F-35s and Saab Gripen fighters will be flown to Finland to take part in a series of tests designed to check whether they fit in the criteria specified under the €10 HX fighter competition, commencing January 9.Information provided by the companies will be verified “in a fair manner” and under low temperature conditions and tests specified by the Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force)
The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC) signed an agreement for co-production of Chinese commercial aircraft. It is not yet known what type of CATIC commercial aircraft could be manufactured in Pakistan
China's Type 055 guided missile destroyer has been armed with long-range land-attack cruise missiles, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy said Sunday. On China's Twitter-like microblogging site Sina Weibo, the PLA Navy also announced that it operates not only vessels, but also submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with strategic missile submarines
Following a series of flight tests, SSJ100 Sukhoi Superjet with horizontal Winglets dubbed saberlets has received Major Change Approval from Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency. In October 2019, United Aircraft Corporation (UAV) announced that tests of two SSJ100 jets (bearing manufacturer serial numbers 95032 and 95157) with the horizontal wing tips was successfully completed
A C-130 Hercules transport plane belonging to Chiles Air Force with 38 people on board has disappeared over Antarctica. The aircraft took off from Punta Arenas and lost radio contact on its way to Chile's Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva base, on Antarctica's King George Island
Turkey has expressed its disappointment with European nations move of imposing
South Africa has $1.7 billion worth of sales at stake after suspending defence exports to the Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for allegedly violating end-user agreements that restricts transfer of weapons to third parties and also allow for inspection of the recipient's facilities
Boeing rolled out its new 737 MAX 10 airplane on Friday, even as hundreds of MAX planes remain grounded worldwide, following two crashes last year. "Boeing marked a key milestone as thousands of employees gathered for the debut of the first 737 MAX 10 at the companys Renton, Washington factory," the company said in a statement