The Navy’s first small-deck gator to undergo an extensive midlife modernization is back in the hands of the fleet, the Navy announced Thursday, after almost a year of work in the shipyard.
An RAF commander destroyed a number of official documents after the loss of a Nimrod spy plane and its 14-man crew over Afghanistan, it emerged last week.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) are expected to take delivery of final consignment of six Sukhoi SU-30MKM fighter aircraft from Russia by year’s end.
Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan yesterday said his ministry would push for the Bt15.4-billion procurement of six Gripen fighter aircraft, although they would only be bought when the fiscal situation permitted such a costly purchase.
Indonesia is in talks with the United States to buy Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport planes and might be in a position to buy fighter jets and submarines in 2-3 years, its defence minister said.
Underlining its increasing strategic prowess, the Indian Navy has for the first time embarked on a two month-long deployment to the Atlantic Ocean, where it will participate in separate war games with the British and French navies. 
North Korea has test-fired another short-range missile off its east coast and says it will take "self-defence measures" if the UN Security Council punishes it for this week's nuclear test.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed initial testing of the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor. 
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, said Thursday that Pakistan would get Air Warning and Control System (AWACS) by October this year.
The failure of the deal to sell Russian IL-78 fuel tankers to India once again raised the issue of the competitive ability decrease of Russian arms and military technique on the world market. 
Australia announced it will send a warship and a surveillance aircraft to the Horn of Africa as part of the international fight against piracy.
More than 10,000 welded joints on at least eight U.S. submarines and a new aircraft carrier might need to be reinspected after the discovery by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding that one of its inspectors had falsified inspection reports.
Reaction to the announcement of an expanded test programme for Russia's troubled Bulava (SS-NX-30) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) - to include five test launches plus static and ground tests in the remainder of 2009 - has been generally favourably received by supporters of the controversial weapon.
Authoritative Chinese military documents suggest that Beijing has taken a serious interest in anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs).
Greece is close to agreeing to a deal with Germany that could lead to the resolution of a dispute over a batch of faulty submarines, which has put a severe strain on relations between the two countries, it was revealed yesterday.
In the third IAF fighter aircraft mishap in less than a month, a Mig-21'Bison' plane today crashed near Jodhpur but the pilot ejected safely.
HMS Exeter is no longer in the Royal Navy's fleet.
JSF development will cost more and take longer to complete than reported to the Congress in April 2008, primarily because of contract cost overruns and extended time needed to complete flight testing. 
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $54 million U.S. Navy contract to retrofit Super Hornet block II aircraft with APG-79 active electronically scanned array radars.
India’s most advanced fighter aircraft, the Su-30 MKIs have resumed operations in Indian skies, more than three weeks after a fatal and still unexplained crash resulted in the grounding of the entire fleet of the fighter aircraft. 
Russian warships are due to call Wednesday, May 27, at the Bahrain port of Manama, seat of the US Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, DEBKAfile's military sources reveal. 
Iranian Navy commander Adm. Habibollah Sayyari said six warships had sent to the Gulf of Aden and "international waters". 
The Chinese air force will show off new high-tech equipment at a grand military parade planned for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Communist state, local media said on Tuesday. 
Denel, South Africa’s State-owned defence industrial group, has responded to a Request for Information (RfI) from the Brazilian Air Force regarding Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance missions. The South African company was one of nine across the world to receive the RfI.
The Netherlands is to sell 18 F16 fighter aircraft to Chile. A Chilean minister announced the deal last month but only now has it been confirmed by Deputy Defence Minister Jack de Vries in a letter to the lower house of parliament.
Syria on Sunday denied reports that Russia had decided to call off the sale to Damascus of eight MiG-31 planes in the wake of pressure from Israel.
The Shahed 285 was unveiled Sunday on the anniversary of the 1982 liberation of the Iranian city Khoramshahr -- which was occupied by Iraqi forces during the 1980-88 war. 
India has got the first of the three Israeli airborne early warning command and control systems (Awacs) and the two remaining systems will be provided in next two years, becoming the first country in South Asia to have advanced Awacs, an Israeli paper reported on Sunday.The first four new Advanced F-16 Block 52+ fighter aircraft have arrived in Greece, Greek NET television channel informs.
The French aircraft manufacturer Dassault is finalizing a deal to sell 60 of its Rafael fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ahead of a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE on Monday and Tuesday.
Russia is set to lose 1 billion U.S. dollars worth of defense deal for mid-air refuellers, which might signal an end to Moscow's 50-year monopoly over Indian military supply, reported local daily Hindustan Times on Monday. 
The Royal Navy is on standby to deploy the world’s most advanced destroyer to protect the 2012 Olympics from a 9/11-style attack. 
Boeing’s X-51A WaveRider Scramjet engine will have its first airborne test around November / December 2009, revealed Joseph Vogel, X-51A Program Manager, Advanced Network and Space Systems.
The Boeing Company has received a $48.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy for development and testing of a Distributed Targeting (DT) system for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter.
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in Wichita is celebrating the start of the flight test phase of the B-52 CONECT aircraft on Friday.
The first customer for a new European-developed civil anti-missile detection system is about to start flight trials aboard one of the Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia aircraft that it is destined to enter service on this year.
Trident may be re-emerging on the political agenda due to the limits on the MoD's budget. DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources report that Moscow cancelled the $1 billion dollar sale because Tehran withheld funding as a cautionary step for Damascus against its going too far in its flirtations with Washington and Ankara.French fighter aircraft Rafale has been allowed to take part in the Indian Air Force’s bid to acquire 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft.
At least three people were killed when a Navy helicopter with five people aboard crashed into the ocean during a training exercise southwest of San Diego, authorities said Wednesday.
Representatives of the U.S. Navy and Bath Iron Works recently participated in a brief shipyard ceremony to mark the keel laying of Spruance (DDG 111), BIW's 33rd DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
Submarine woes have hit a new low with just one of six Collins Class craft fit for service.
The European Union on Monday (18 May) called for an independent inquiry into alleged human rights violations resulting from the conflict in Sri Lanka and demanded those responsible be held to account.
On April 6, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the Pentagon would stop making F-22 fighter jets, scores in Congress thundered to uphold the ultra-expensive aircraft as a linchpin of the national defense and a cornerstone of economies in Texas, Georgia, Connecticut and many other states.
Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany would lose 18 F-16s — and possibly one of its three fighter squadrons — in a plan the Air Force announced Tuesday to eliminate about 250 fighter jets from its inventory.
A floating jetty, the length of two football pitches, has completed its journey to its new home on the Clyde.
The induction of first squadron of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to Indian Air Force (IAF) can take place by the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011 with regular persuasion and monitoring of the LCA programme, the Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said.
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $4 million contract by the Boeing Company for the technology development phase of the F/A-18E/F Infrared Search and Track (IRST) program. 
As the oil wells run dry, the planet's last great energy reserves lie miles beneath the North Pole. And as the U.S. and Russia race to grab them at any cost, the stage is set for a devastating new cold war.
India on Tuesday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable ‘Agni-II' missile with a strike range of up to 3,000 km from a launch pad off Orissa's coast.
