WASHINGTON: The Bush administration announced plans to sell India six Lockheed Martin Corp. C-130J cargo planes and related gear worth up to $1.1 billion in what would be the first major U.S. military aircraft deal with India.The sale would bolster a “U.S.-Indian strategic relationship that continues to be an important force for political stability, peace and economic progress in South …
The 1998 Strategic Defense Review [SDR], in recognising that the UK faces a very different security environment from that of the Cold War, emphasised that risks still remain to UK security. International instability is likely to become more prevalent. The combat power of dangerous regimes assumes more significance as democratic countries reduce their armaments and there is an increasing risk …
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India’s sole aircraft manufacturer, state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), is gaining expertise in building UAVs through partnerships with overseas companies.HAL has established, on an equity-sharing basis, a joint partnership with Elbit to manufacture simulators and avionics for the Israeli firm’s Skylark mini UAVs. The venture will help HAL develop a mini UAV of its own, a company official said.Bangalore-based HAL …
Malaysia’s air force said May 24 it had received its first batch of Russian-built Sukhoi jets, which have come after a four-year wait.”We have received two Sukhois today, which will be delivered within two weeks,” a spokesman for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), Zulkiflee Abdul Latiff, told AFP from Russia.He said the Sukhoi 30-MKM fighter jets would be sent …
The chief executive of a Russian space technology firm sold China secret technology for the creation of missile delivery systems, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.br /The FSB said in November they had arrested Igor Reshetin, general director of the TsNIIMASH-Export firm, for selling technology that could have been converted to military use and for failing to obtain …
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SOUTHWEST ASIA: Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations May 19, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.br /In Afghanistan, Navy F/A-18C Hornets dropped guided bomb unit-38s on insurgent targets in Shurakian. The joint terminal attack controller, or JTAC, confirmed the bombs impacted their …
