3/14/2010

T-50: Russia's secret fighter jet with 'human intellect'

We can expect a real breakthrough when the Russian-Indian collaboration on the creation of a fifth-generation prototype aircraft based on the experimental T-50 starts to become a reality.

3/14/2010

Venezuela's Chavez Receives Chinese Planes Armed with Missiles, Rockets and Bombs

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez formally took delivery of the first four K-8W airplanes out of 18 purchased in China for military training purposes, which, however, came armed with machine guns, air-to-ground missiles, bombs and rockets, and said that this armament increases military capability for “defending the sovereignty of this sacred land and of this revolution”

3/13/2010

How Drone Pilots Wage War

Drone pilots sit in air-conditioned rooms far away from the anti-terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They guide their weapons systems with joysticks and monitors. The remote warriors work with a high degree of precision -- and at a fraction of the cost of a fighter jet.

3/13/2010

As Its Arms Makers Falter, Russia Buys Abroad

Ask a Russian what the country makes well, and the answer, more often than not, will be the Kalashnikov rifle.

3/13/2010

Russia signs $1.5-bln fighter jet contract with India

Russia and India have signed a $1.5-billion contract on the supplies of 29 more MiG-29K carrier-based fighter jets to New Delhi, the head of the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG said on Friday.

3/12/2010

Flying fox

WHILE most kids harboured straightforward ambitions of being a teacher, accountant or lawyer, Patricia Yapp had her head in the clouds.

3/12/2010

AgustaWestland has been awarded a contract by the Indian Air Force for twelve AW101 helicopters

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a contract with a value of EUR 560 million by the Indian Air Force for the supply of 12 AW101 helicopters for government transport.

3/12/2010

EADS still looks to U.S. expansion

Northrop Grumman Corp's decision not to bid in a multibillion-dollar U.S. aerial tanker competition was a setback for the ambitions of its partner EADS, but the European company still hopes to boost U.S. revenue to $10 billion by 2020.

3/12/2010

Joint Strike Fighter soars to $95M

The cost of a single Joint Strike Fighter has soared to $95 million in the past eight years, a 50 percent increase, Pentagon officials told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

3/12/2010

Tanker Deal Gives a Lift to Boeing

Northrop Grumman’s withdrawal this week from a $40 billion contest to build aerial refueling tankers provides Boeing with some welcome certainty about its future as a major builder of military aircraft.