The helicopter aerobatics display team, Sarang from the Indian Air Force will be performing at the Berlin Air show from 27th of this month. The six-day show will be led by the Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Shashank Misra and will comprise of 14 officers and 32 airmen. Thereafter, the Team will participate in various displays at Biggin Hill Air Show in England. The two-day show at south of London will be followed by displays at the Waddington Air Show in July, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force.
Defense intelligence officials said this week that China's new J-10 jet fighter was built with the help of Israel, under the U.S.-sponsored Lavi jet fighter program canceled back in 1987.
"China's J-10 program was assisted by engineers who worked on the Israeli Lavi program," one defense official told Inside the Ring. "The J-10 and Lavi share many of the same design elements."
According to the officials, Russia also has helped with the J-10 program, helping Beijing to develop a new J-10 engine to replace the current one — a Chinese copy of
Russia started developing tactical laser weapons before the United States and has several prototypes of high-precision combat chemical lasers in its arsenal, a defense industry source said on Tuesday.
The Boeing Company said recently it had test-fired a high-energy chemical laser fitted aboard a C-130H aircraft for the first time. The successful ground tests, "a key milestone for the Advanced Tactical Laser Advanced Concept Technology
The Indian Navy has asked Boeing for the use of its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet supersonic carrier-based fighter aircraft on board a Russian-made carrier, Russian daily Izvestia said on Thursday.
A Boeing spokesman confirmed that his company had received a request from India for use of the fighters on board the Vikramaditya, formerly named the Admiral
India successfully tested its nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi missile from a test range in eastern Orissa state on Friday, defence officials said.
Prithvi, which means the earth in Hindi, is India's most sophisticated medium-range missile that can cover a range of between 150 to 350 kilometres.
It was launched from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipore in Orissa, a Defence Ministry spokesman said in New Delhi.
'The Prithvi II missile was tested as part of a user's trial by the Indian Army and the
The recent firing by Pakistani troops on a forward post in Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir might have been "due to some misunderstanding", a senior IAF officer said today. "The reason for the firing is yet to be understood. May be it was due to some misunderstanding," Air Officer Commanding in Chief Western Air Command Air Marshal P K Barbora told reporters here.
The firing on Monday by the Pakistani troops in Mendhar along the Line of Control had
The Israeli air force has pushed the acquisition of advanced air-to-air missiles down its priority list, with purchases of stand-off-range precision-guided weapons having moved to the top.
Israel recently moved away from its traditional choice of either the Rafael Python 4/5 or Raytheon AIM-9L Sidewinder to arm its Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters, ordering a batch of AIM-9Ms using Foreign Military Financing provided by the USA.
Indian Air Force will deploy for the first time unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to combat insurgency in Northeast India.
"At least one squadron of UAVs would be deployed by the year-end in the Northeast," Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief in Eastern Air Command (EAC) Air Marshal S K Bhan said.
"The aircraft, called 'bird' by the force, can survey up to 250 km from its station. Sensors and cameras fitted to the aircraft can detect developments and movements on ground. It would be handy in the deep jungles of Arunachal Pradesh and other inaccessible areas," Bhan said.
Indian Air Force has been developing infrastructure in a big way in east and north-east India to match "developments across the border, especially China," Air officer commanding-in-chief of Eastern Air Command (EAC), Air Marshal SK Bhan said here on Wednesday.
Air Marshal Bhan downplayed reports of Chinese incursion and territorial claims on Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
"We are gearing up by building modern infrastructure and deploying latest machines
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