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China Bans Jet Fuel, Oil Exports To North Korea
April 5, 2016 @ 12:09 PMChinese Commerce Ministry has decided to ban trade with North Korea including import of gold and rare earth metals and export of jet fuel, oil products used to make rocket fuel. Chinas move to ban trade with North Korea comes in line with new United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang,
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French Navy Busts Somalia-bound AK-47 Consignment
April 1, 2016 @ 01:24 PMFor the third time in six months, huge consignments of weapons that include hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles and anti-tank weapons were seized from a dhow headed for Somalia. The Combined Maritime Forces Combined Task Force 150 which conducts the anti-piracy and counter terrorism operations off the coast of Somalia was quoted as saying by IHS Janes that, “the seizure was made on 20 March near Socotra in the Northern Indian Ocean by the French Navys FREMM frigate
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North Korea Fires 2 Mid-Range Ballistic Missiles In Eastern Waters
March 18, 2016 @ 07:57 AMNorth Korea has fired two medium-range ballistic missile into east waters of which one appears to have blown up mid-flight. The missile was launched around 5
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US Marine Corps To Test ST Kinetics, SAIC TERREX 2 Amphibious Combat...
March 17, 2016 @ 02:52 PMFollowing the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)'s decision to deny the protest of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle Phase 1, Increment 1 (ACV 1.1) programme, ST Kinetics, together with its teammate, Science Applications International Corp
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Safran Plans Engine Upgrade For Dassault Rafale Fighter Jet
March 16, 2016 @ 02:15 PMFrench company Safran, which manufactures the M88 engine of the Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft plans to increase its thrust from 7.5 tone to nine tons
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F-35 Operational Clearance Threatened As Radar Turns Off In-Flight
March 8, 2016 @ 02:38 PMThe US Air Force' F-35 fighter jet is facing a software glitch involving the radar as it requires the pilot to turn it off and on again in-flight and poses threat to delaying the USAF plans to declare the jet operationally deployable. "What would happen is they'd get a signal that says either a radar degrade or a radar (AN/APG-81 AESA) fail -something that would force us to restart the radar," Jeffrey Harrigian, director of the air force's F-35 integration office at the Pentagon was quoted as saying by
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India Considers Second Line Of Indigenous Fighter Aircraft For Air Force
March 5, 2016 @ 11:00 AMIndia is considering manufacturing indigenously a second line of fighter aircraft and a decision on the issue will be taken within a year, Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said on Friday. Asked about the depleting squadron-strength in the IAF, he said there were aircraft that will soon become obsolete, and while the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas and under-process Rafale deal will help fill some of the gap, India still needs one more line of fighter planes, which will be made in India
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US Working On New Cyber Attack Tactics To Overload IS Computer Networks
March 1, 2016 @ 07:58 AMThe Pentagon has accelerated the anti-IS campaign with the new cyber war tactics to be used against Islamic States widespread computer networks. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told AFP today that the US-led coalition is working to disrupt IS's command chain "to cause them to lose confidence in their networks
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Russia Helicopters, HAL To Commence Formal Talks On KA-226T Project Implementation
February 21, 2016 @ 03:43 PMRepresentatives of Russian Helicopters and Rosoboronexport are expected in Bangalore next week to hold talks with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on implementation of a project to manufacture the KA-226T helicopters in India. A Russian source told defenseworld
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Indo-French Rafale Fighter Deal Deadlocked Over Price: No Deadline For Negotiations
February 19, 2016 @ 08:06 AMThe Indo-French negotiations for buying 36 Rafale have again hit a deadlock over the issue of price with Indian Defense Minister saying that there would be no deal until the price was right. "The price is the problem that needs to be resolved as long as I do not get the right price, I cannot sign, but we resolved the other issues in terms of safeguards; procurement and manufacturing methods " Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar said on India Today news channel Thursday
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Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
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...