The Indian Air Force has restarted a global contest, inviting international fighter jet manufacturers to set up a production facility in India to make single-Engine fighters. According to Business Standard report, Indian embassies in Washington, Moscow and Stockholm have written to jet manufacturers in these countries to confirm whether they would be interested in partnering with an Indian company in building a medium, single-engine fighter, with significant transfer of technology to the Indian entity
The Phililippines plans to halt 28 military exercises that are carried out with US forces each year in addition to stopping joint naval patrols in the South China Sea. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told local media Friday that he told the U
In what appears to be a simulated amphibious assault on a hostile beach, Saudi Arabia today commenced a naval exercise in the straits of Hormuz called Gulf Shield 1. Photographs released by the Saudi Press Agency show light amphibious assault vehicles being driven out of landing ships and soldiers coming of these vehicles in battle formation
UK has announced £1.3 billion of new investment to start construction work on Successor nuclear-powered missile submarine, which will begin to replace the current Vanguard-class in Royal Navy service in the early 2030s
US Marine corps is eyeing technology that can search and destroy commercially available enemy drones which can harass troops or gather surveillance unnoticed. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) operator Master Sgt
Pakistani Inter-Services Public Relations today said that the notion of surgical strike linked to alleged terrorists bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by India to create false effects. Pakistan today denied that there was a surgical strike by the Indian troops against terrorist targets instead there was an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani forces across the border
South Korea has suspended operation of its Lynx military helicopters fleet after one of them crashed into the East Sea. The helicopter crashed around 9:05 PM during a joint night-time drill by South Korea and US
Russia has plans to build Glonass K-2 Satellites with its home made components by 2020 as part of governments efforts to substitute imports amid sanctions. “We are also going to start mass producing them before 2020,” Nikolai Testoyedov, chief designer at Reshetnev Information Satelllite Systems JSC, Russias number one satellite maker, told the media
Google is carrying out review on Taiwans request to blur imagery of unidentified Taiping Island military structures viewable on its Earth and Maps services. Four giant tetrapod-shaped structures on the north-western shoreline of the island Itu Aba controlled by Taiwan and also claimed by several other countries was visible on Google Maps satellite photo, Local media reported Wednesday
Even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief is trying to drum up support for alleged rights violations in Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a US lawmaker has moved a bill to have the US administration declare Pakistan as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism. Congressman Ted Poe, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, along with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, introduced H