THE RAF is being forced to borrow American spy planes and paint roundels on them to replace its fleet of Nimrod R1 signals intelligence aircraft.
The crews of the US Rivet Joint spy planes masquerading as RAF aircraft will not even be totally British with US personnel expected to take control on some missions.
The move, forced by a Ministry of Defence (MoD) cash crisis that rules out the money for a replacement aircraft for the Nimrod R1, has provoked outrage among RAF air crew who say it will mean a major loss of capability.
India has embarked on project BrahMos-2, which will see the design and development of hypersonic missiles, according to Dr A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BrahMos Aerospace.
The project launched jointly with Russia, under BrahMos, will see more than 20 Russian institutes and industry and a bigger number of Indian industry participating.
The hypersonic missiles, will fly at Mach 5-7 speeds ( one Mach is equivalent to
The wooing of India, which imported military hardware and software worth a staggering $25 billion since the 1999 Kargil conflict, continues unabashedly.
With India planning to spend another $30 billion or almost Rs 120,000 crore on arms imports by 2012, countries as well as global armament companies continue to jostle with each other to grab big pieces of the lucrative action. Around 400 companies have already confirmed their participation at the four-day 'DefExpo-08', which kicks off here on February 16, to hawk their wares.
The MiG-27 that crashed in Bhatpara Tea Estate on Thursday afternoon had developed a mechanical problem minutes after it took off from the Indian Air Force station here, the pilot said today.
Wing Commander Jaspreet Singh had taken off at 12.28pm and soon sensed trouble in the fighter plane’s engine.
Sitting in room 142 in the officers’ ward of the station hospital, Singh said he had immediately radioed the air traffic control.
“I tried my best to get back to base safely, but the engine caught fire and I
A non-official Iranian news agency quoted a top diplomat as saying on Friday that Iran is still in talks with Russia on buying advanced S-300 air defense systems, despite an earlier denial from Moscow.
In December 2007, Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said that the issue of the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, raised by the media, was not a subject of current negotiations and had not been discussed with the Iranians.
The Chinese Navy is using Australian technology to upgrade its warships, a move which experts warn may be detrimental to Australia's national security.
Through a joint venture company based in China, an Australian business, AMD, has sold designs for the hull and propulsion system of high-speed catamarans to the Peoples' Liberation forces.
The Chinese military has built vessels based on those designs and then armed them
Hyped as the ultimate success story in the field of military joint ventures, the world's only supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos, has come under attack over some aspects of transfer of technology (ToT) from Russia.
In a presentation made before Defence Minister AK Antony during a seminar on defence R&D and technology management on Tuesday, a former chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) raised the issue of India not possessing the
Pakistan on Friday successfully test fired the nuclear-capable Ghauri missile with a range of 1,300 km, capable of striking major Indian cities, as President Pervez Musharraf declared the country was capable of "thwarting all threats" to its nuclear capability.
The successful training launch of the Ghauri or Hatf-V intermediate range ballistic missile was witnessed by Musharraf and Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at an undisclosed location.
The launch was conducted at the conclusion of an annual field training exercise of a
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