Italian fighters were scrambled yesterday after an RAF transport plane apparently triggered a terror alert.
The C-130 Hercules flew over Rome but failed to respond to repeated efforts to make radio contact after it appeared to veer off course.
The Italian F-16 jets roared into the sky, prepared to shoot the aircraft down.t was identified as friendly only when the fighters made visual contact and communications were established.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will “redefine the concept of multirole strike” aircraft, Lockheed Martin officials say, but they offer few details to flesh out that claim.
Still, while the future concept of operations, electronic attack (EA) capability and derivative options remain undefined, at least publicly, some capabilities can be picked out of their purposely vague descriptions.
Starting from the notion that new hardware is the least likely addition to the aircraft
Apparently peeved at the practice of blacklisting of companies after allegations of kick-backs, Naval Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta on Saturday said the procedures involved needed to be amended as it leads to delays in acquisition of urgently-required weapon systems.
Speaking to reporters, he hoped for early nod from the government for procurement of additional Barak missiles from Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd, an Israeli company which is under a cloud of suspicion following allegations of kick-backs.
Responding to concerns from India and the West about China's plan of building ports in South Asia, Zhang Yan, the Chinese ambassador to India, said in a luncheon held by the Asian Association in Hong Kong on June 18 that "India is our partner. We never intend to encircle India as it does not abide by the interest of the Chinese people."
"China is not attempting to control shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean. Saying China is taking an encirclement policy is invalid," he said.
Agence France Presse reported that thousands of ships, fully loaded with goods and under Chinese flags, traverse the Indian Ocean to bring the cargo to the European market every year. Ambassador Zhang stated that China does not protect the
The Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture has finished the development of the airborne version of an advanced supersonic missile, the company's managing director has said.
Established in 1998, BrahMos Aerospace designs, produces, and markets supersonic missiles, whose sea-based and land-based versions have been successfully tested and put into service with the Indian Army and Navy.
A Russian frigate being built at a shipyard in St. Petersburg may be equipped with sea-based Russian-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, a Russian defense industry official said on Friday.
"The only [Russian combat] ship that could feature these [the BrahMos] missiles is the Project 22350 frigate Admiral Sergei Gorshkov being built at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg," the source said.
India's indigenous pilotless aircraft, 'Nishant', has moved a step closer to induction into the Army.
A pre-induction trial carried out by the Indian Army along with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on friday has been successful, DRDO officials said. "The confirmatory trials were successful," they said.
Army troops which would work with the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) took out 'Nishant' for trials at Kolar in Karnataka.
"Nishant has completed development phase and user trials. The present flight tests
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has been flying the British-made Hawk advanced jet trainer (AJT) since November last year, but till now a significant new landmark has been kept secret: the first Indian-built Hawk has taken to the skies.
On May 7 — just eight days after a British-made Hawk trainer crashed near Bidar, in Karnataka — a group of more than 100 technicians of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) gathered at the company runway in Bangalore. The Hawk had been restricted from flying after the accident on April 29; but HAL was going ahead with an unannounced
Three months ago an order from the Air Force for a substantial number of the Akash medium range, surface-to-air missile (SAM) system seemed just a few bureaucratic signatures away.
However, with the Air Force communicating to the Defence Ministry that the missile does not, in its present version, meet some critical operating requirements, the acquisition process could be longer than expected.
The all-weather Akash, developed by the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) is part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
China's air force plans to recruit 30 female pilot cadets in 2008, who will become part of a reserve force of the Chinese women astronauts, according to an officer in charge of pilot recruitment.
Senior Colonel Sui Guosheng, head of the Pilots Recruitment Bureau of the Air Force of People's Liberation Army (PLA), said that the recruitment, which kicked off in 16 provincial areas across China Tuesday, was expected to end in July.
The candidates are high school graduates aged between 16 and 19,according to Sui.
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