Russia’s fifth-generation T-50 fighter jet will enter service with the country’s armed forces in 2016, and not 2015 as was previously announced, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “The T-50 fifth gener...
China has agreed to buy two dozen fighter jets and four submarines from Russia, state media reported Monday, the country’s first large-scale weapons technology purchases from Moscow in a decade. The agreement to b...
China buys from Russia the production line of Tu-22MB bombers for US $1.5 billion including transfer of all the technology for the production. China has already imported 6 such bombers as the bombers are much better th...
The Sukhoi aircraft maker delivered on Friday the first six Su-35S fighter jets to the Russian Air Force, the company said. The acceptance documents were signed by Defense Ministry officials at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur ...
The US Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of F-22 fighters, the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world, after problems emerged with the plane’s oxygen supply, officials said Friday. The radar-evading F-22 Raptors have been barred from flying since May 3 and Air Force officials could not say when ...
The Norwegian parliament unanimously approved the funding of four Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II training jets to begin fulfilling Norway’s future air-combat capability requirements. These 5th Generation fighters will bridge the gap between Norway’s aging F-16s currently in service, and due to be phased out by 2023 …
MiG-29 crashed in southern Russia on Thursday during a test flight, killing the two pilots and prompting the defence ministry to suspend the plane from use during an investigation. The MiG-29 jet flown by experienced pilots went off the radar at around 1645 and crashed in the Astrakhan region around 43 ...
Eurofighter have completed a range of air-carriage trials for the MBDA Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), which forms part of the process of integrating the missile onto the Typhoon swing-role combat aircraft. The first of a series of trials to ensure the safe separation of the missile across the ...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully participated in the 2011 Northern Edge joint military exercise by demonstrating key F-35 Joint Strike Fighter sensor capabilities in a demanding operational environment. The AN/APG-81 active electronically scanned array radar and AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System were …
Forty-four people are now reported to have died in an air catastrophe in north-west Russia. Another eight have been taken to hospital with serious injuries. A Tu-134 airliner with 43 passengers and nine crew members on board was forced to make a crash landing near Petrozavodsk in Karelia in Russia’s north-west ...
Fourteen mobility Airmen teamed together to fly a Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy on a direct, non-stop mission from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, here June 5 and June 6, 2011. The flight was the first time a U.S. Air Force plane flew this northern route from the United States, over Canada and ...
NATO allies Poland and the United States signed a deal on Monday for the stationing of U.S. airforce personnel on Polish soil, a symbolically important move for Warsaw as it keeps a nervous eye on neighbouring Russia. The accord, endorsed by U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Warsaw late ...
The South Korean air force has unveiled its new TA-50 trainer jets designed for training for actual combat operations. The South Korean air force intends to deploy 200 new TA-50 Golden Eagle trainer jets designed to carry out a lead-in fighter training mission by mid-2012, defpro.com Web site reported Friday. The ...
NATO and Russian fighter jets held their first ever joint exercise Tuesday, teaming up in a bid to prevent attacks such as the September 11, 2001 strikes on the United States, a NATO official confirmed. “Today was an important step for NATO-Russia relations, and therefore in my opinion, also an important ...
MiG aircraft maker delivered a new batch of five MiG-29K/KUB carrier-based fighters to the Indian navy in May, the company said. “A flight training simulator and other technical equipment has also been delivered,” MiG said in a statement on Monday. The two countries signed a contract stipulating the supply of 12 ...
