Sukhoi Co. has refuted today the reports of some foreign media about its alleged negotiations to deliver Su-30 jets to Iran. Top officials of Sukhoi Co. have blankly denied the report of Israel’s Jerusalem Post claiming that Sukhoi is currently in talks to deliver 250 Su-30 jets to Iran.
U.S. refusal to supply Lockheed Martin F-22s for Japan’s current fighter requirement has prompted Tokyo’s defense ministry to propose a stealth technology demonstrator, ensuring it will be more independent of Washington in future programs.
Pushing back the decision date on a replacement for its F-4 Phantoms to 2009 at the earliest, the Japanese defense ministry says it is looking at flying the old McDonnell Douglas fighters longer. It is also seeking information on potential replacements from non-U.S. suppliers—presumably the Eurofighter consortium and Dassault Aviation.
The Air Forces of Russia will get first Su-34 fighter-bomber on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported with reference to Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, aide to the Air Forces commander-in-chief. The solemn ceremony for accepting the first Su-34 will be held in the Lipetsk Center of Combat Use and Flight Crew Transition on July 31, Drobyshevsky specified.
CHINA'S army helicopter forces yesterday flew to Russia for a joint anti-terrorism drill run by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Sixteen helicopters took off from northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for a 2,700-kilometer flight to the drill venue, said Major General Ma Xiangsheng, one of the top Chinese officers in charge of the drill.
Islamabad, with its neatly laid out streets and installations, is famously said to be 15 minutes from Pakistan. But after Pak troops first stormed the Lal Masjid on July 10 to flush out terrorists, the loudest effects are being heard and felt on the unruly border with Afghanistan. And no one’s facing the heat as much as the Pakistan Army.
more than 70 of its soldiers have been killed in suicide bombings and ambushes in just a fortnight after the Lal Masjid operation. In fact, according to estimates by the United States and independent terror monitors, over 600 soldiers have died fighting militancy since Islamabad joined the US led “war on terror” along the Afghan border.
Taliban militants have used a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile to attack a Western aircraft over Afghanistan for the first time.
The attack with a weapon believed to have been smuggled across the border with Iran represents a worrying increase in the capability of the militants which Western commanders had long feared.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the Taliban attempted to bring down an American C-130 Hercules aircraft flying over the south-western province of Nimroz on July 22. The crew reported that a missile system locked on to their aircraft and that a missile was fired.
Modernized MiG-31 interceptors will be fit to take on fifth-generation aircraft, according to chief commander of the Russian Air Force Alexander Zelin. He said that fifth-generation technology would be used when modernizing the planes, which will increase their military value 1.5-4 times, depending on the nature of their task.
Japan will conduct the first test launch of its SM-3 missile interceptor, the same U.S.-developed system that has been tested in Kauai waters for the past five years, the Japanese Defense Ministry has confirmed.
The mass-circulation Yomiuri newspaper reported that the test, scheduled for December, would be conducted off Hawaii.
China is close to beginning construction of its first aircraft carrier to expand the operational and strategic capabilities of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), a Chinese news agency said Friday.
KANWA News cited sources in the Chinese defense industry as saying that several companies had received contracts on the development of systems and components for the future aircraft carrier.
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