a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://bp0.blogger.com/_RRbP6fpJWAc/RyiZFkzQAwI/AAAAAAAAAXc/w0EautvV8y8/s1600-h/85909393.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://bp0.blogger.com/_RRbP6fpJWAc/RyiZFkzQAwI/AAAAAAAAAXc/w0EautvV8y8/s320/85909393.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127516496818340610″ border=”0″ //aRussia’s new-generation fighter plane, currently being jointly developed with India, will make its maiden flight no later than in 2012, a senior Air Force official said on Tuesday.br /br /Russia and India signed an agreement on [...]

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India’s domestically built light combat aircraft successfully test fired an air-to-air missile Oct. 25 in what the defense ministry called a “significant milestone.”br /The combat jet, named Tejas — the Hindi word for radiance — fired a Russian-made short-range R-73 missile off India’s west coast in Goa state.br /“The historic event marks the beginning of [...]

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Saab is prepared to compromise on production location if the company secures an order from India to deliver 126 JAS Gripen fighters to the Indian air force, the company has said. Saab produces the Gripen at its facilities in Linköping.br /Gripen’s main competitors are the F-16 and F/A-18 planes, the Dassault French Rafale, the Russian [...]

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Thailand will purchase 12 Swedish-made jet fighters over the next decade for 34.4 billion baht ($1 billion), the head of the air force said Oct. 17.br /The first lot of six JAS-39 Gripen fighters will be bought by 2011, with a second lot of six jets purchased by 2017, air force chief Chalit Phukphasuk told [...]

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Should JAS Gripen win the race to build 126 fighter planes for the Indian Air Force, most of the planes would be slated for production in India rather than Linköping.br /br /India wants 108 of the planes to be manufactured in India. The order is reported to be worth a total of 60 billion kronor [...]

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a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_RRbP6fpJWAc/Rwd_o3ZxPZI/AAAAAAAAAVg/Vkz3wvBr1vA/s1600-h/jdw021210_2_p.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_RRbP6fpJWAc/Rwd_o3ZxPZI/AAAAAAAAAVg/Vkz3wvBr1vA/s320/jdw021210_2_p.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118199841573387666″ border=”0″ //aThe Shenyang Aircraft Company has been selected to head research and development of a new heavyweight fighter for China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), according to a senior source at the China Aviation Industry Corp [...]

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NEW DELHI — Indian and Israeli companies have teamed up to convert India’s Lakshya pilotless aircraft into a cruise missile, sources in the Indian Defence Ministry confirmed.br /The proposed Lakshya cruise missile would carry a payload of 350 kilograms up to 600 kilometers, and the project is already under way. The Indian government has sanctioned [...]

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