Russia has not supplied Iraq with Mi-17 Hip multi-purpose helicopters, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday dismissing earlier media allegations.
Earlier this week Iraqi daily Al Mada reported that the Iraqi army had commissioned a batch of Russian helicopters, but did not specify the number.
Russia has begun mass production of Topol-M strategic missiles, the country’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said June 26. “We are now moving on to a new and very important rearmament stage for both our nuclear strategic forces and our tactical complexes,” he said at the plant at Votkinsk in Udmurtia, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east of Moscow, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
For an air force with an acute lack of aircraft, personal computers may be good enough to hone the skills of its pilots.
Maj. Gen. Michael Mendoza, chief of air staff, told The STAR that with the lack of fighter jets and training equipment such as flight simulators, Philippine Air Force
Russia's Irkut aircraft maker said Tuesday it will export 242 multi-role Su-30 Flanker fighters, worth around $7 billion, by 2014.
The Irkut Corporation [RTS:IRKT], which is part of Russia's United Aircraft Building Corporation created in 2006, manufactures variants of the famed Su-30MK for India, Algeria, and Malaysia.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force’s latest squadron got its first aircraft on Tuesday when two Sukhoi Su-30MKM Flanker fighter jets were delivered. The Russian-made aircraft were onboard an Antonov An-124-100 cargo aircraft, which landed at the Gong Kedak air base in Kelantan at 6.30pm.
Warplane maker MiG said Monday it planned to sell 350 of its new generation fighters for about $10-12 billion by 2020 as it breaks into new markets, Russian news agencies said.
Aircraft make up almost half the country's arms exports, with MiG and Sukhoi taking the lion's share of those sales. The modernized MiG-29, based on a classic Soviet
Eleven Pakistani sailors have ditched their crew and apparently gone absent without leave in Tokyo since two of the country's naval ships made a rare goodwill visit to Japan as part of a training cruise, an official said yesterday.
"They went out for sightseeing and then they disappeared," a Pakistan Embassy official said on condition of anonymity, citing protocol. A Pakistani destroyer and supply ship
Choices usually involve a price, but people persist in believing that they can avoid paying it. That's what the Indian government thought when it joined the American alliance system in Asia in 2005, but now the price is clear: China is claiming the whole Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, some 83,000 sq. km. (32,000 sq. mi.) of mountainous territory in the eastern Himalayas containing over a million people.
S-400 missile defense systems (NATO codename SA-21 Growler) will be deployed later that previously expected, the commander of Russia's Air Force said Tuesday.
"The deployment of the new S-400 missile defense system is postponed due to
China and India both are planning to launch moon shots within a year in the latest sign of the two Asian powerhouses' intensifying rivalry and growing technological prowess.
Although both countries deny they are engaged in a 21st century rerun of the 1960s race to the moon between the United States and the then-Soviet Union, their haste to launch suggests more than casual interest in the other's progress.
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