Ten years after the U.S. Air Force retired the SR-71 spy plane, Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works appears back at work developing a new Mach-6 reconnaissance plane, sources said. The Air Force has awarded Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects arm a top-secret contract to develop a stealthy 4,000-mph plane capable of flying to altitudes of about 100,000 feet, with transcontinental range. The plan is to debut the craft around 2020.
When President A P J Abdul Kalam's term comes to an end in July, there is one organisation in the country which is praying that the illustrious rocket scientist doesn't get a second term in office; the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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.
The USD 1.7 billion Godrej Group plans to give a major push to its military equipment supply business, even as the government moves toward creating a level-playing field to private sector in manufacturing defence hardware.
"We are already in nuclear and space technology and... now plan to vigorously pursue the defence business where we scent immense potential," group chairman Adi Godrej told.
A Chinese general said on Monday that his country was against the weaponisation of space and it seeks to promote peaceful use of that medium.
Major General Liu Xinjiang, deputy commander of Lanzhou Regional Air Force, has reassured the international community that China would never engage in a space arms race or pose military threat to other nations.
After years of negotiations, Admiral Gorshkov, the Russian aircraft carrier, would finally be inducted into the Indian Navy by the end of the next year, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta said on Saturday.
“We are inducting Gorshkov by the later part of the next year,” said Admiral Mehta on the sidelines of a function of the Indian Military Academy (IMA) here.
The Indian Army is to conduct psychological tests on its recruits in a bid to control the large number of suicides and fratricides that have occurred in the past few years, a defence scientist said Friday.
"Through the new tests (being introduced from October), we would be able to gauge the personality of a recruit, his ability to grasp a given situation and the ratio of positive to negative traits," Manas Kumar Mandal, who heads the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), said at a press conference here.
China is developing new radar and other sophisticated systems to find and target U.S. radar-evading stealth aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning, F-117 Nighthawk and B-2 Spirit. China watchers in Asia and the United States have seen an increase in China’s anti-stealth research and development, and procurement and manufacturing of passive, bistatic high frequency and long-range radars.
The following is the first installment in the second part of a series of articles on new developments in India, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence this year.
India's space center is located on Sriharikota Island in the Indian Ocean. On April 23, a 44-meter rocket was launched successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the island.
India will launch its first dedicated military satellite in August to give the country the capability to monitor missile launches in its neighbourhood.
The dedicated military reconnaissance satellite, CARTOSAT 2A, will be launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket by the Indian Space Research Organisation in the first week of August, an official said.
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