South Korea's Navy will build a speedier transport vessel in the next three years to counter growing threats from North Korea along the tense maritime border. "The plan is part of the government's efforts to beef up preparedness and combat capabilities against relentless provocations from the North along the tense sea border with North Korea," a military official familiar with the matter told Yonhap News Agency Thursday
Indian Air Force has fired a long range air-to-air MICA missile from Mirage-2000 fighter jet on a manoeuvring target. The missile achieved a direct hit on a target which was much smaller than an actual aircraft and flying at a low altitude, several Indian media reported
Egypt has received US State Department approval to acquire $70 million eight Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 radars to expand its existing air defense architecture for countering air-attack threats. "This will contribute to Egypt's military goal of updating its capabilities while further enhancing interoperability among Egypt, the United States, and other allies
Russia is planning to equip its Su-33 air superiority fighter with Gefest & T developed SVP-24 ultra-precision targeting system, which enables the warplanes to drop unguided bombs with same precision as a guided weapon. Deck-based warplanes Su-33 of the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, to be deployed off Syria in November, will be equipped with the air bomb high-precision sighting systems, reported Izvestia on Friday
The Russian Air Force plans to replace the full metal blades of Mi-28NM military helicopters with new ones made form composite materials. The helicopters are currently in operation in Syria
The work on Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missiles Brahmos to integrate it on Su-30MKI fighter are at final stages and is likely ot be completed by month end. "The decisive test will be held on August 26-27
Russian Sukhoi Su-34 bomber will be integrated with advanced radio surveillance gear, UKR-RT used primarily for detection and accurate positioning and performance goals such as: communication and information transfer, radar stations. The new system can turn into a multifunction bomber capable of airstrikes and also conduct reconnaissance at the same time
India and Russia are currently negotiating the upgrade of the Indian Air Forces Su-30MKI aircraft which could be finalized in the next 4-6 months. A Russian team was in New Delhi to discuss the upgrade earlier this month,
MBDA and Boeing have successfully completed a series of physical trials and firings of Brimstone missile from the AH-64E attack helicopter. These trials were conducted to validate the feasibility of integrating the missile with the United Kingdoms future Apache AH-64E fleet and hence it confirmed that integration was expected to be low risk
A UK Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft has successfully fired a SPEAR air-to-surface precision strike weapon for the first time in a flight trial conducted from BAE Systems site in Warton, Lancashire. The SPEAR missile is being developed to meet the UKs Selective Precision Effects At Range Capability 3 (SPEAR Cap 3) requirement for the UKs F-35 Lightning II aircraft, with the potential to equip Typhoon