Did a torpedo implode in Indonesian submarine, KRI Nanggala 402 splitting up the 44 year old vessel into three parts and killing all of its 53 officers and crew instantly? Indonesian Navy Commander Yudo Margono said at a press conference Sunday that was broadcast on Indonesian television that SONARS had located an object that looked like a submarine at a depth of 850 m, way out of its 500 meter ‘safe diving range suggesting that a catastrophic event had taken place abroad the submarine. A video released during the press conference revealed large parts of the sunken submarine
After being removed by the U.S
An Airbus A400M tanker plane successfully refueled two French Eurocopter EC725 Caracal (Airbus H225M) helicopters mid-air. France is the only European country to undertake C130J-Caracal refuelling
Boeing bagged a contract worth approximately $79.5 million to provide equipment for Japans KC-46 tanker aircraft
NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, today. The solar-powered helicopter first became airborne at 3:34 a
The Czech Republic has expelled 18 Russian diplomats after an investigation linked their involvement to a 2014 ammunition depot explosion and will discuss the matter at an upcoming NATO summit on Tuesday. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced that there was a reasonable suspicion of the involvement of Russian secret service GRU officers in the explosions of ammunition depots in Vrbětice
Israel has signed an agreement valued $1.65 billion with Greece to establish an International Flight Training Center for the Hellenic Air Force
Elbit Systems said today it will supply an additional J- MUSIC DIRCM (Direct Infrared Countermeasures) self-protection system to the Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF). This time for the ninth Airbus A330 MRTT aircraft, the last addition of the fleet, to be equipped with Elbit Systems J-MUSIC DIRCM system
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) admitted that Sundays “act of sabotage” of Natanz nuclear facility had led a number of the centrifuge machines (used in uranium enrichment) going off-grid. In remarks made during the inauguration of Iran Quantum Technologies Center on Monday, AEOI chief Ali Akbar Salehi said that enrichment activities in Natanz have not been suspended, although a number of the centrifuge machines that have gone off-grid have to be revived, Tasnim News reported
Indian Navy Ships INS Satpura (with an integral helicopter embarked) and INS Kiltan alongwith P-8I Poseidon Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft are participating, for the first time; in multi-lateral maritime exercise La Pérouse, being conducted in the Eastern Indian Ocean Region from April 5-7, 2021. The Indian Navy ships and aircraft will exercise at sea with ships and aircraft of French Navy (FN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) and United States Navy (USN) during the three-day exercise at sea