The US department of defense has approved a new policy that will allow military bases to shoot down unauthorized drones that trespass in their airspace. The increased use of commercial and privately owned small unmanned aircraft systems has raised Defense Department concerns for the safety and security of its installations, its aviation and its people, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters Tuesday
The third Australian F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has received its Australian made vertical tail as it nears production completion. Victorian based company Marand is an Australian company, one of which is the manufacture of vertical tails
The UN Security Council resolution to block a third of North Koreas exports in the form of coal, mineral and manpower will dry up its main source of its foreign exchange and starve most of its labor-intensive industries. "Through the resolution, the Council (UN Security Council) had taken a strong and united step, increasing the penalty of that countrys ballistic missile activity to a whole new level
Japan has demanded that the US ground its V-22 Osprey aircraft deployed in Japan after one of the Marine Corps planes crashed off Australia. The crashed Osprey was among the tilt-rotor aircraft deployed at U
The US Navy has called out its search operation for a sailor assigned to guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG-3) after he went missing on August 1 in the South China Sea. The US Navy destroyer was accompanied by Military Sealift Command ships USNS Vice Adm
India should co-develop the fifth generation stealth fighter with Russia, says a panel that was appointed by the countrys defence ministry to examine a fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) project based on the PAK-FA. The committee, headed by Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman (retd), has recommended India should go ahead with it in the face of reservations by the Indian Air Force,
China will possibly hold mooring trials of its first homemade aircraft carrier next month ahead of schedule, said Hu Wenming, general director of the aircraft carrier construction projct. Hu said that construction of Chinas second aircraft carrier, also the countrys first homemade one, is going well after it hit the water in Dalian on April 26 this year, CCTV
The Eurofighter Typhoon will form the 'spear point' of the UKs future combat air defence capability alongside the F-35 Lightning, Harriett Baldwin, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement has said. “We see Typhoon as very much strengthening UK defence and the first quality I would highlight is its reliability; it has an engine that goes over 1,000 flying hours without needing unscheduled maintenance,” Harriett Baldwin MP, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement, was quoted as saying by BAE Systems Thursday
Turkey is set to open a military training facility that can train more than 1500 troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Somali defense minister Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohamed said that the camp which had been under construction for the last two years will open this September,
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has started to test its new system, Counter Improvised Explosive Device and Mine Suite (CIMS) mobile system that can identify, locate and destroy improvised explosive devices and mines before troops even reach them. CIMS that was created by Elta, one of IAIs subsidiaries, can detect both surface and underground IEDs, mines and roadside bombs