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ASIAN DEFENCE: Pakistan's first Air to Air refuelling capable Upgraded Mirages

Declan Walsh, Islamabad The entrance is suitably discreet: a single barrier near a small hospital off a busy Islamabad highway. Bougainvillea spills over long walls with barbed wire; a plain-clothes man packing a pistol questions visitors. Further along, soldiers emerge to check for bombs.Then...

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Iraqi's childhood memories solved pilot mystery An Iraqi Bedouin's dim childhood memories led US authorities to the long-sought remains of a US Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in 1991 during the first Gulf War, a US Senator said Wednesday.Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said the "mystery"...

Army for new commanders sight on T-90s The Indian Army has decided to replace the main commander's sight on all current and future T-90S main battle tanks, and has issued a request for information for this. The T-90's PNK-4S commanders sight, manufactured by Russia's JSC Rostov...

Armed forces to induct 800 choppers in next few years NEW DELHI: Supersonic fighter jets may grab all the eyeballs. But it's also raining helicopters for armed forces, who want to induct as many as 800 "rotary-wing birds" over the next few years at a cost of well over Rs 20,000 crore. Yet...

Has this plane been developed completely in house , what about the engine and avionics specs , i see that the Iranians are doing pretty good in the defense sector with all those sanctions in place , the plane looks awesome more like an advanced light fighter jet, max do you happen to have any...

Public trust in China at a new low BEIJING, Aug 5 — Sex workers are more trustworthy than government officials. And state-published data is “largely falsified”. These views from a just-published survey confirm the trend of decliningpublic trust in China in recent years...

China's prostitutes are better-trusted than its politicians and scientists, according to an online survey published by Insight China magazine. The survey found that 7.9% of respondents considered sex workers to be trustworthy, placing them third behind farmers and religious workers. "A...

Fincantieri has new orders from UAE and Indian Navy Fincantieri has gained new important orders from foreign navies: a corvette for the United Arab Emirates Navy of and a fleet tanker for the Indian Navy. The vessels, worth 250 million Euros, will be built at Fincantieri’s Italian shipyards...

IAF mulls purchase of South Korean fighter jets A delegation of three Israeli Air Force officers will leave for South Korea this week to examine the T-50 Golden Eagle, a candidate to replace the IAF's veteran Skyhawk jets. This is the first time in 40 years that Israel is considering purchasing...

US May Withdraw More Apache Helos From Korea by 2012 The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) is considering pulling its remaining battalion of Apache attack helicopters out of South Korea by 2012, when operational control (OPCON) of South Korean troops during wartime is transferred from the U.S. military...

Same goes with AIR INDIA even the government officials do not travel in the national carrier , however world over airlines are getting bankrupt so it is a collective issue , may be when the recession is over the airlines can start making profits.

India is a major automobile manufacturing region with Ford , Hyundai, Toyota kirloskar, General motors, TATA , Hindustan motors , Maruti suzuki,Mahindra and mahindra, Honda siel, Skoda auto and some other players in the field , we have a large presence in the European markets as well, recently...

Majority of advanced RAF Typhoons will go to Saudi Arabia By Thomas Harding Despite spending more than £16 billion on the project over the last two decades the British are now going to end up with less than half of Typhoons from the Tranche 3 group.The Tranche 3 aircraft are specifically...

Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said military aircraft will continue to dominate the company's foreign sales in 2009, and will total about $2.6 billion.The arms export monopoly is planning to sell about $6.5 billion worth of military hardware in 2009, and earlier said its...

Eurofighter sweetens its India offer With the four-nation Eurofighter consortium facing the uncomfortable reality of dwindling orders at home, India’s tender for 126 medium fighters, worth some $11 billion, is now crucial. So, Eurofighter has reworked some of its most fundamental tenets and...

Harbin Aviation Industry (Group) Co Ltd (HAIG), the China National Aero-Technology Import-Export Corp (CATIC), and the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute (CHRDI), located at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, are gearing up for launching the limited series-production, a...

China’s Aviation Industries (AVIC) has further developed the existing JH-7A ‘Flying Leopard’ deep interdictor/strike aircraft into two specific dedicated airborne platforms: one for suppressing hostile air defences (the SEAD role), and another for undertaking ELINT functions in lieu of launching...

Armed forces to get more snoop-power NEW DELHI: Defence ministry has approved another major induction of spy drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) for armed forces, with surveillance and intelligence-gathering missions becoming critical on the western and eastern fronts as well as along...