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Chinese Instructor-Pilots Certified For Night Carrier Operations
August 9, 2021 @ 12:45 PMDuring a recent voyage of the Chinese Liaoning aircraft carrier, a batch of Instructor-Pilots were certified for night operations paving the way for rapid induction of naval aviators into the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Navy. In a test conducted on a windy night with fierce sea waves in the Bohai Sea, several pilot instructors from PLA Naval Aviation University steered J-15 fighter jets and landed on the flight deck of Liaoning, PLA Daily reported Friday
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Chinese Y-20 Tansport Plane Could Be Powered by Domestic Engines
July 19, 2021 @ 07:16 AMThe state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the maker of the Y-20 hinted at switching to domestically developed engines with a high bypass ratio Chinese state media reported that last week, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) released a cartoon on its official Weibo account showing a Y-20 aircraft with four big wine barrels covering its engines. "In the future, the Y-20 will be produced in large numbers using Chinese-developed engines to serve as a platform that can be developed into different variants, like an aerial tanker or an early warning aircraft," Wei Dongxu, a Beijing-based military expert, told the...
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Russia’s Sevmash Modernizes Indian Shipyard for INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier Upgrades
June 22, 2021 @ 05:20 AMRussias Sevmash shipbuilding enterprise has completed modernization of Indian shipyards so they could perform repair and maintenance of the countrys sole aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya. "All the necessary work has been completed to equip the shipyards of the foreign customer with repair shops for weapons systems to ensure the repair and maintenance of weapons systems for the ship of Project 11430,” the company said in its 2020 annual report
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Iranian Navy Ship Carrying 7 Fast Attack Boats Heading to Venezuela
June 2, 2021 @ 11:29 AMIranian Navys new forward-basing ship, IRINS Makran, was seen on April 28 leaving its homeport with seven high-speed missile attack boats aboard and is being considered a suspected shipment of arms to Venezuela. Satellite imagery obtained by
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Second Fire in 2 Years Onboard India’s INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier
May 8, 2021 @ 06:06 AMA minor fire broke out onboard the Indian Navys
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Lockheed Martin launches New Line of Mid-Size ISR Satellites
April 14, 2021 @ 04:51 AMLockheed Martin announced a new line of mid-size tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellites on Monday. The company is pitching the new satellite- about the size of a small refrigerator- as an alternative to tactical surveillance platforms like airplanes and drones
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DARPA Initiates Low Temperature Integrated Circuits Project to Get Over Moore's Law...
April 9, 2021 @ 09:25 AMThe U.S
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France Preparing to Offer Rafale Jets to Ukraine as MiG-29 Replacement
March 31, 2021 @ 12:10 PMFrance is preparing the ground to offer Dassault Rafale jets to Ukraine as replacement for the ageing MiG-29 fighters. The offer is expected to be placed during an upcoming official visit to Kyiv of French President Emmanuel Macron
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Israel’s Rafael Unveils Turbojet-Boosted SPICE 250 at Aero India
February 4, 2021 @ 07:33 AMAt the Aero India 2021 exhibition, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. unveiled a new variant of its SPICE 250 air-to-surface munition, with the addition of an integrated turbojet engine
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Israel’s Rafael Wins $200M Asian Deal for SPICE-2000 Bombs, Spike ATGMs
December 28, 2020 @ 05:19 AMIsraeli firm Rafael has said it won a
Canada May Cut F-35 Order, Consider European Jet Fighters
China's J-15 Fighter Jet Crashes During Training
U.S., Iraqi Forces Assassinate ISIS Second-in-Command, Abu Khandijah
GE Gets $5B to Make Engines for Saudi, Jordan, Bulgarian F-16, F-15...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U