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South Korea may scrap plan to buy used U.S. Apache helicopters South Korea is considering scrapping its plan to buy second-hand Apache attack helicopters from the United States due to feasibility issues, an official said Wednesday. The South Korean Army has hundreds of helicopters that will be...

South Korea unveiled its first homegrown helicopter South Korea on Friday unveiled its first homegrown helicopter, hoping it will propel the nation's budding aerospace industry and step in for an aging military fleet. Able to push 260km per hour and hover high above the nation's craggy...

Japan hangs on to F-22 fighter hopes Japan will continue to collect information on the U.S. F-22 fighter jet as a candidate to succeed its aging F-4EJ fighter fleet, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday, despite the U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to ditch funding for the...

An Indian Air Force (IAF) plane crashed in Medak, Andhra Pradesh on Friday morning.The plane was a HPT-32 trainer aircraft and had two IAF pilots on board.Nitin Jain and Chaturvedi (full name not yet known) were the training instructors at the Air Force Academy.The two pilots were on a trainee...

First F-22P Frigate delivered to Pakistan Under Sino-Pak joint project, first F-22P Frigate constructed for Pakistan Navy at Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, China was delivered to Pakistan Navy on Thursday.The delivery ceremony was followed by Commissioning of the ship, in which...

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ITALIA - Ferrari's innovative new V8 The 458 Italia is the latest incarnation of the mid-rear engined berlinetta and will be unveiled at the next Frankfurt Motor Show Maranello, July 28th 2009 – While it's true that every Ferrari is innovative by definition, it's equally true that in the...

Navy chief in Gorshkov. "If you can find me a warship of this kind for under $2-billion, I will write you a cheque." That's Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta on the freshly contentious acquisition of the Admiral Gorshkov/INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier. At a seminar this morning on...

South Korea and the United States will conduct joint military exercise South Korea and the United States will kick off their annual computerized joint military exercise aimed at improving interoperability next month, the Combine Forces Command (CFC) here said July 24. The Ulchi Freedom...

Adolf Hitler is speeding through Germany with his chauffeur at the wheel on his way to an important address. Driving down a country road, the chauffeur (who is distracted, looking out the window at the countryside) doesn't see a pig walk out onto the road, and he hits in with the car. Stopping...

A young, freshly minted lieutenant was sent to Bosnia as part of the peace keeping mission. During a briefing on land mines, the captain asked for questions. Our intrepid solder raised his hand and asked, "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?" "Normal procedure, Lieutenant...

An Air Force Captain and an Army Captain were sitting next to each other on an airplane. The Air Force Captain leans over to the Army Captain and asks if he wants to play a fun game. The Army Captain just wants to sleep, so he politely declines, turns away and tries to sleep. The Air Force...

AgustaWestland to bag India''s VVIP chopper deal New Delhi, July 29 (PTI) India is just a step closer to buying 12 VVIP helicopters that would fly President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and has zeroed in on a British-Italian major AgustaWestland product that flies the US...

Boeing has outlined early details of its potential bid to win the forthcoming contest to develop a replacement for the US Air Force's (USAF's) General Atomics MQ-9 Predator B (Reaper) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Michael Schoenfeld, Boeing's director of advanced ASW (anti-submarine...

A U.S. Air Force C-130 incinerated a dummy ground target by firing a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser at White Sands Missile Range, N.M, during a June 13 test of the service's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL), Boeing officials said. "We fired the laser in-flight. We hit a target board...

The U.S. Army has temporarily suspended delivery of Raytheon's GPS-guided, 155mm Excalibur artillery rounds due to problems with its Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), service officials said. The Army, which has taken delivery of tens of thousands of XM982s, says none of the rounds used in combat...

Uighur leader says 10,000 'disappeared' in China unrest. TOKYO: Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday that nearly 10,000 people ‘disappeared in one night’ during ethnic unrest in the Chinese city of Urumqi early this month. ‘Close to 10,000 people in Urumqi...

S. Korea to Upgrade Military Communication Network South Korea will begin developing a digital command-and-control and sensor-to-shooter battlefield system next year, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced July 28. The plan was approved by the supreme arms procurement...

I don't think that will happen in near future , the political establishment has to face a lot of flak even if they try suggesting it .

There is an article posted by king julien about the construction of project 17A class frigates in india.