Mitsubishi on Thursday announced its plans to establish a new aircraft design center in Montreal for the company's SpaceJet series. The SpaceJet program has seen setbacks since 2013, when the first model was initially scheduled for delivery
Japan is setting up 80 member-strong electronic warfare (EW) unit to jam enemy forces radars and missile guidance systems at the Kengun station of the Ground Self-Defense Forces (GSDFs) Western Army, in Kumamoto Prefecture. “China has extended the firing range of cruise missiles and increased its attack capability in cyberspace and electromagnetic waves, areas that have become greater security threats
Russia has deployed its S-400 air defense systems on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic, Russian Northern Fleet said in a statement Monday. "The air defense regiment of the Russian Northern Fleet deployed on Yuzhny island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago has been completely re-equipped with new S-400 systems," the statement read
Taiwan released a blow-by-blow strategy to “repel Chinese forces” in its latest National Defense Report, a few days after China conducted joint land assault exercises off its eastern coast, close to the island nation. The report, released Wednesday, is the first to be made public after President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016
Russia has deployed Bastion land-to-ship missile systems on two islands in the northern portion of the Kuril islands chain, off Japans Hokkaido, completing Russias defensive line stretching from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Hokkaido. The installed missile systems were moved from Kamchatka Peninsula to Paramushir and Matua islands in the chain
Taiwan's newly ordered $8 billion-worth 66 F-16V fighters are of downgraded standards and may not include ammunition and other accessories, Taiwanese media have claimed. The island nation has agreed to pay about $110-120 million per jet, way less than net price of "weaponised" Bulgarian F-16
Irkut Corp of Russia has started tooling, raw material sourcing and other preparations for the mass-production of the MC-21-300 passenger aircraft even as the airliner is undergoing its final set of certification tests. Ravil Hakimiv, General Director of Irkut together other company executives said during a press conference at MAKS 2019 event in Moscow that all the main confirmation tests to prove the main characteristics of the aircraft had been completed
Irkut Corporation will present MC-21-300 new generation passenger aircraft for the first time at Moscow International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019. The aircraft participating the MAKS flying display is the FTV-1, which has performed maiden flight
The Bavar-373 is a mobile missile defense system designed to intercept and destroy incoming hostile targets. The system employs missiles that have a maximum range of 300 kilometers
Sri Lanka Navy renamed China-gifted frigate "P625" as "Parakramabahu" and commissioned it into naval service. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka Cheng Xueyuan, Defense Attache of the Chinese Embassy Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei and Sri Lanka senior military officers and government officials attended the ceremony