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India To Commission Five Air Strips in Eastern Border With China
September 9, 2015 @ 04:33 PMIndia is commissioning five air strips next month to counter Chinas aggressive infrastructure expansion on its eastern front. The advanced landing grounds, capable of landing all types of transport and military aircraft, are developed in Arunachal Pradesh, various media reported today
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CAE Wins US$90.5 Million Defense Contracts
September 9, 2015 @ 02:35 PMCAE has won US$90.5 million worth defence contracts including a Mitsubishi Electric order to provide components of the Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) system for twenty P-1 maritime patrol aircraft of Japan
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Airbus Withdraws From Japanese Tanker Aircraft Tender Citing Terms Favor Boeing
September 8, 2015 @ 04:09 PMAirbus has decided not to bid for the Japanese air-to-air refueling tanker aircraft contract worth over a billion dollars citing terms of tender favor its rival, Boeing. “The RFP allowed Japan to buy tankers under the US government's foreign military sale mechanism, which involves the two governments negotiating the contract directly,” Airbus was quoted as saying in a statement by Reuters Tuesday
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India Plans $35 Billion Defense Offsets Push
September 8, 2015 @ 03:45 PMThe Indian defense ministry will be clearing projects for defense offsets that could cross $35 billion by the end of this year. “A majority of projects cleared by the Defense Acquisition Council over the past year will be manufactured in India by foreign companies in partnership with Indian firms
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Turkey's Rocketsan Signs Rockets, Anti-Tank Missiles Deal With Poland
September 8, 2015 @ 03:16 PMTurkey's Roketsan has signed a deal with the Polish WZL1 firm to integrate two of its products, the Cirit and the UMTAS, into Polish armed forces platforms. Roketsan and WZL1 have agreed to jointly offer Roketsan's Cirit and UMTAS systems solutions to the Polish military, the defenseNews reported Monday
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To Cut Costs, Poland May Join Norway Or Netherlands To Buy Subs
September 7, 2015 @ 02:38 PMPoland may join Norway or the Netherlands to buy submarines instead of buying them alone to cut costs. Polish ministry of defense had plans of buying three submarines at an estimated cost of US $2 billion at the start of the year
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Yahoo, Google Help Sought To Prevent Iranian Cyber Crimes
September 7, 2015 @ 12:57 PMThe Iranian cyber police officials have called Yahoo and Google cyber companies to co-operate with them for preventing online crimes. Iran has asked Yahoo, Google, and the messaging app Telegram to "work with us in the prevention of criminal acts," Hossein Ramezani, Iran's deputy cyber-police chief for international affairs
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Expensive Weapons Purchases To Burden Next South Korean Government
September 7, 2015 @ 11:46 AMThe next South Korean government will be burdened with more than 24.8 trillion won (US $20
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India Issues Guidelines For Operating UAVs Citing Security Concerns
September 7, 2015 @ 09:45 AMThe government of India has issued guidelines for operating any kind of aerial object that include UAVs, para-gliders and hot air balloons, among others citing security concerns. The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has already conducted meetings at various levels involving all the stakeholders in the last few months and it was decided that guidelines will be framed on the issue for strict implementation, Asian Age newspaper reported Sunday
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Sukhoi Su-35 To Replace Indonesian F-5 Tiger Aircraft
September 3, 2015 @ 03:29 PMIndonesia has selected Russian Su-35 fighter aircraft to replace 16 F-5 Tiger aircraft. "We (Armed Forces Commander and Air Force Chief) agreed to buy a squadron of Sukhoi SU-35 from Russia to replace F-5 Tiger fighter aircraft,” Indonesian Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu was quoted as saying by Tempo website
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Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
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The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles