India has tested an air defense missile at a site close to its tense border with Pakistan where it conducted a string of nuclear detonations in 1998, officials said Wednesday.
Military scientists tested the medium-range surface-to-air missile Akash, or Sky, from Pokhran, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Pakistan's borders last week but gave details of the flight only on Wednesday.
A woman who dreamed of becoming a medical doctor 10 years ago has become the first female to pilot the KF-16, the Korean Air Force's state-of-the-art main fighter jet. After finishing her flight on Thursday morning, Captain Ha Jung-mi, 28, climbed out of the cockpit and stood on the runway at the 20th Fighter Wing in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province. She had just created history, overcoming the Air Force's initial reluctance to place a woman in control of the advanced aircraft. Ha was commissioned an Air Force second lieutenant in 2002. She piloted an A-37
The Russian Federal Military Technology Cooperation Service has permitted China to re-export Russian RD-93 fighter jet engines as part of FC-1 Chinese-Pakistani planes to six countries, including Algeria, which, until now, has only bought Russian jets. Besides Pakistan and Algeria, the countries that will receive the planes are Egypt, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. The presence of Algeria on the lost was unexpected. It is the third-largest buyer of Russian military hardware and has only purchased coast guard boats and Kalashnikov plants from China so far. Russia signed a contract with Algeria in March 2006 for the
On verge of successful testing the Indigenous cryogenic engine for the full duration of 720 seconds on Nov 15 which forms the upper stage of GSLV and getting ready for the future launch of next GSLV (GSLV-D3) by 2008 using indigenous cryogenic engine, ISRO has been seen shying from answering what happened to the launch of PSLV which was scheduled latter in October this year with the payload of Israeli spy
Over a weeklong field trials of indigenously developed Surface-to-Air Missile Akash in the deserts of Rajasthan have impressed the top officials of Indian Air Force (IAF), according to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The medium range missile with a range of between 27 to 30 kms has yet to inducted by the IAF, and there were media reports earlier claiming that the IAF’s top brass were not satisfied with the missile system, as they found instances when parts of missiles fell from the main body.
The delivery of a Russian aircraft carrier that the Indian Navy has purchased for $1.5 billion could be indefinitely delayed, to go by a reply tabled in parliament Monday.
'The overall progress of repair and re-equipping of the ship, ex-Admiral Gorshkov, in Russia is slow,' Defence Minister A.K. Antony said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
Russia has attributed the delays to 'growth of work', Antony said, adding that a are vised master schedule indicating a delay in the project' had been submitted.
The Indian Air Force(IAF) would like to conduct joint air exercises with China as there were no "issues" that came in the way of such manoeuvres, IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal F H Major said on Monday.
Major told reporters at the Eastern Air Command base at Shillong he was "hopeful" that in the near future India may have a joint military exercises with China.
"I can't give the time but there are no issues between India and China which prevents both the countries from having such an exercise."
Technology transfer will not count toward the offset requirement in bids for India’s $10 billion Medium Multirole Combat Aircraft (MMRCA), Indian Defence Ministry officials have decided. Potential bidders learned of this new twist in an Oct. 30 meeting with ministry officials. The deadline for offset proposals has been extended until June, although technical bids are still due in March, a senior ministry official said. The change will force bidders to recalculate their offers and increase the cost to the Indian Air Force, said one senior executive of a foreign aircraft firm. “The transfer of technology alone could add up to 60 percent of the total cost of the aircraft,” the executive said.
Myanmar troops have launched a crackdown against Indian separatists, raiding several rebel bases, officials and militant leaders said on Monday.
An Indian defence official said camps belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had been smashed in northern Myanmar's Sagaing division.
"The offensive is continuing... since the last four days with some key ULFA bases demolished according to information available so far," a commander of India's paramilitary Assam Rifles told AFP, asking not to be named.
British Royal Air Force (RAF) men and their Indian Air Force (IAF) counterparts will soon battle it out on a new turf -- in a contest not to show their military strength but to prove their prowess in cricket.
After the IAF men triumphed in most of the matches at a tournament played in the UK last year, the RAF team will try to settle scores in a similar competition in the national capital.
The time and fixture of the tournament is yet to be finalised, with defence sources saying it is likely to be held in December end or the first week of January.
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