Pakistans Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday registered booked German ex-CEO of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for abusing his powers and making illegal appointments. “The FIA Corporate Crime Circle has registered an FIR against German national Bernd Hildenbrand, a former acting CEO of PIA, for allegedly abusing his powers and illegally appointing Austrian national Helmut Bechhofner as a consultant to CEO in October 2016,” said deputy director, FIA, CCC, Karachi, Abdur Rauf
The weapon that was used in assassinating Irans senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh reportedly has Israeli markings. An informed source told Iranian state-controlled
The Iranian parliament on Sunday passed a double-urgency motion which among other things seeks to increase the monthly output of enriched uranium for various peaceful purposes with different purity levels by at least 500 kg. As per the 9-artilce bill, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) will be required to produce and store at least 120 kilograms of enriched uranium with 20 percent purity level at the Fordow nuclear facility every year, and to fulfill the countrys peaceful industrial demands with uranium enriched above 20%, Tasnim News reported
The German procurement authorities have awarded Rheinmetall a contract to develop a key future laser weapon system component. At the end of the second quarter of 2020, the Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support, or BAAINBw, contracted with Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH to fabricate a laser source demonstrator
A joint venture is to be established between Czech truck producer Tatra, owned by Czechoslovak Group (CSG) and Rheinmetall Landsysteme, to manufacture Tatra brand of rugged military trucks. Rheinmetall and Czechoslovak Group (CSG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the field of tactical military vehicles, a Rheinmetall press release said
An American destroyer, John McCain entered the territorial waters of Russia in the Peter the Great Gulf for two kilometers and was driven out by the Russian large anti-submarine ship Admiral Vinogradov, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "Today at 6:17 Moscow time, the USS John McCain destroyer, which has been in the Sea of Japan for several days, violated the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Peter the Great Gulf, going 2 kilometers beyond the sea border line,"
Philippines received $18 million worth of weapons from the U.S
The Russian Helicopters has delivered the first Ansat helicopter to a European client, Republika Srpska. The operator of the rotorcraft, which is equipped for medical operations, is the Ministry of Interior of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
China has flown its Y-20 military transport aircraft with an indigenously made WS-20 engine replacing a Russian origin D-30 powerplant. The development has not been confirmed by the authorities
Rheinmetall has begun serial delivery of 342 roll-off tipper vehicles to BwFuhrparkService GmbH (BwFPS), the state-owned enterprise in charge of the Bundeswehrs fleet of non-tactical vehicles. The first 69 logistic vehicles were transferred, to be followed by up to eight more trucks per week