The New Zealand Defence Force will test launch its new Penguin anti-ship cruise missile during the biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) scheduled June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California
South Korea, the United States and Japan will carry out their first-ever joint missile defense exercise in Hawaii, Wednesday, to deal more effectively with North Korea's growing nuclear and ballistic missile threats, the Souths Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday. The trilateral missile defense exercise will take place on the side-lines of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, or RIMPAC, the world's largest U
Fishermen of Thanh Hoa Province have reportedly found an ejection seat on Sunday that is believed to be part of a Vietnam Air Force fighter jet that crashed into the East Sea earlier this month. The object was found at about 10 nautical miles southeast of Me Island, in the area where a search operation is ongoing for the Sukhoi Su-30 MK2, Col
Tower Industries has won $87 million contract to provide cast iron practice bombs for the Air Force. Work will be performed with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2019, The US DoD said in a statement Thursday
Turkey's STM has been awarded the tender that was initiated for the half-life modernization of class “Agosta 90B” submarines in the inventory of Pakistani Naval Forces; competing against DCNS which designed and built the submarines. Thus, engineering exports will be initiated in Pakistan for the first time in the field of submarines, the company said in a statement Wednesday
North Korea has deployed an intermediate-range ballistic missile to its east coast, a South Korean government source told Yonhap news agency. South Korean and Japanese military officials are monitoring the situation, though there have been no signs of a launch detected
The debris of the Vietnamese Airbus CASA 212 coast guard plane along with nine people was found by the military rescue forces Friday. The turboprop plane was in a search operation for an Air Force pilot missing from another crashed aircraft a few days earlier
A Vietnamese military search plane with nine people on-board has gone missing after it went looking for a missing pilot whose jet fighter went down off the coast this week, state media reported. The aircraft on Thursday disappeared from radar 40 nautical miles southwest of Bach Long Vy island, a small island in the Gulf of Tonkin that sits halfway between mainland Vietnam and Chinas Hainan island, state-run VNExpress reported
A US EA-18G Growler aircraft arrived at Clark Air Base in Pampanga on Wednesday for the training with FA-50 aircraft pilots of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US Pacific Fleet said Thursday. The Growler aircraft will also perform routine operations to enhance regional maritime domain awareness and assure that there is access to air and maritime domains in accordance with international law
The US Senate this week approved a move to enhance military co-operation with India for developing threat analysis, military doctrine, force planning, logistical support and intelligence collection and analysis. An amendment titled “to authorise military-to-military exchanges with India”, as passed, asks the Secretary of Defence to ensure that the India-US co-operation is at a level appropriate to enhance engagement between the militaries of the two countries for developing threat analysis, military doctrine, force planning, logistical support, intelligence collection and analysis, tactics, techniques and procedures and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, PTI reported