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According to ITAR-TASS citing a source in the defense industry, Russia’s Defense Ministry has amended a technical assignment for developing the Leader-type missile destroyer for the Navy, which will have a nuclear power unit as the sole option. Twelve ships of the 10,000t "Leader class"...

As the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of the victory over the forces of Nazism on May 9, particularly the Soviet Union’s stellar role in the Great Patriotic War, it would be apt to also remember sacrifices of the valiant Indian soldiers who fought alongside and spilled their blood for...

The ‘Joint instrument-making company’ announced the creation of a universal robotic tracked platform URP-01G, designed to provide the greatest possible range of tasks in both peacetime and wartime. URP-01G. Source: Pavel Lisitsyn / RIA Novosti The ‘Joint instrument-making company’ (JIMC)...

vitalykuzmin.net The Russian Defense Ministry and the Kurganmashzavod concern have signed a contract for the supply of several hundred infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3 to the Russian Arm. To date, over 2,000 units have been supplied to worldwide users of which some 700 to the Russian Army...

State Trials of Russia’s ‘Sosna’ Air Defense System to Begin in Summer State trials of Russia’s new short-range air defense missile system will begin in summer 2015, Tochmash design bureau told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The system, dubbed Sosna, is expected to replace Strela-10M air defense...

34 years ago, the USAF set out to build a fighter that could guarantee American air superiority for decades to come. $75B, 563 less aircraft than planned, and a decade after being declared operational later, the F-22 still doesn’t have what some MiG-21s have, a Helmet Mounted Sight and a missile...

Currently, countries like USA, Russia and India are working on scramjet powered missiles which can travel faster than 6 times the speed of sound. Theoretically a scramjet engine can achieve speeds of 12 times the speed of sound. The X-51 waverider is a scramjet demonstration vehicle...

The Airbus A400M is one of the largest aircraft to be powered by turboprops USES: The most famous turboprop powered aircraft is the C-130 transporter. The fastest turboprop powered aircraft is the Russian Tu-95 which is powered by 4 contra-rotating turboprops rotating at supersonic speeds which...

Jet engines revolutionized air travel. They allowed designers to make aircraft which could fly faster than the propeller-driven, petrol engine powered aircraft of the day. Jet engines were first made in the 1930s, but didn’t enter service or large scale production till the 1940s. They are...

So it seems there were no Indians who took pride in their country before 16th May 2014. Then what is Jai Hind ?

All the while, the world’s most capable fighter ever built, one that the US only had well less than 200 of, was flying around with a missile that was antiquated in comparison to Russian designs two and a half decades prior. By around 2010, almost every platform in the DoD’s tactical stable were...

Development of a missile and sighting system that could achieve similar or better performance than the Archer was slow going for NATO allies. By the early 2000s multiple systems were deep in development. The US had its next generation Sidewinder, AIM-9X, and its Joint Helmet Mounted Cuing...

34 years ago, the USAF set out to build a fighter that could guarantee American air superiority for decades to come. $75B, 563lessaircraft than planned, and a decade after being declared operational later, the F-22 still doesn’t have what some MiG-21s have, a Helmet Mounted Sight and a missile...

Other power players that are cleared to fly have to put in requests and make their case as to why using a helicopter is a better choice than other forms of transportation, as well as what the flight is for in the first place. Only the highest priority of flights pickup and drop off direct. In...

US Marine Corps HMX-1 Easily the most recognizable helicopters in the world are the “White Top” VH-3Ds and VH-60Ns that are used exclusively to transport the President Of The United States, their family and his closest advisers. When the president is on-board, these aircraft are famously...

While Alpha Company within the 12th Aviation Battalion is primarily tasked with VIP airlift, and Bravo Company flies the UH-72 Lakotas, Charlie Company is assigned the task of transporting the 911th Technical Rescue Engineering Company, which is a premier urban search and rescue and disaster...

Washington D.C. is a fast moving place, and for those in the verytop echelons of power, both time and security trump cost efficiency when it comes to transportation. The Department Of Defense has trio of helicopter squadrons ready to fly these VIPs around the region, and to safety should...

We tend to go on and on about random exercises here on Foxtrot Alpha, but this time, it’s different. Operation Dynamic Mongooseis the biggest anti-submarine exercise NATO has ever conducted, and it reflects both deep-seated fears and the effort to catch up on years of management mistakes. And...

GRSE (Garden Reach Ship Engineering), Calcutta one of the leading shipyards of the country is all set to launch the last vessel being built under the P-28 program. The vessel will be cherished as Kavaratti. INS Nirghat The need for specialized ASW platforms Chinese have been inducting...