South China Sea
US and the Philippines Conducted Exercise at Scarborough Shoal
Philippine and U.S. forces has conducted their annual joint naval exercise, including drills near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, which is claimed by Manila and Beijing. The six-day exercis…
Military data
Su-35 Capable of “Previously Unheard-of Manoeuvrability”- Test Pilot Bogdan
Sergey Bogdan, Hero of Russia and Sukhoi test pilot, who flew the Su-35 at the Paris Air Show, talks to Ogomyok about the aircraft and the state of aviation engineering in Russia. The display sequenc…
Military data
'Working On Interceptor Against 5,000-km Range Enemy Missile': DRDO Chief
With Defence Minister AK Antony in China, the first by a Defence Minister in seven years, new facts about the direction India's nuclear missile programme is taking could send out an unprecedented…
Military data
Jinan MAC in Live-Ammunition Firing Drill
A brigade of the air force under the Jinan Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) organized its troops to conduct live-ammunition firing drill in an unfamiliar …
Technology
The Unreported Revolution In Air Combat
One of the major, and little mentioned, revolutions in air combat is the availability of more powerful and reliable helmet mounted displays and sights. This enables a pilot to “look and shoot” as wel…
South Korea
SKorea extends $7.3 billion fighter jet bidding
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea has extended its window for accepting bids from aircraft makers to supply 60 fighter jets at an estimated cost of $7.3 billion (8.3 trillion won). Arms procurem…
Myanmar
Myanmar Air Force Uses Chinese made UAV
Myanmar Air Force is reported to have acquired 11 Sky-02A from Beijing Micropilot company of China as part of the Air Force effort to venture into unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology. It has also…
UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market (2013 - 2018)
In today’s context UAV’s play an important role in varied missions such as military attacks, border surveillance, mapping, surveying, weather determination and regional law enforcements. This technol…
Missiles
A Buyers Market For Anti-Ship Missiles
June 26, 2013: There was recently a SINKEX (sinking exercise) in which Norway fired one of their locally made Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) at a decommissioned 2,100 ton Oslo class frigate. The NSM, fi…
Vietnam People's Air Force
Vietnam’s UAV Over The South China Sea
AV.UAV.S1 and AV.UAV.S2 UAVs developed by Vietnam’s Institute of Space Technology have conducted test flights over the South China Sea to tests their respective autonomous flight control system as we…
Military data
Aircraft You’ve Never Thought Could Fly From An Aircraft Carrier
The flight deck is certainly the most dangerous runway an aircraft could land or take off from. It is cramped with other aircraft, deck crew and equipment. The limited space and the constant m…
Military data
MBDA’S BRIMSTONE Simultaneously Destroys Multiple Attack Craft In Salvo Firing
MBDA’s combat proven, UK developed, Brimstone missile carried out the world’s first surface to surface salvo engagement of multiple Fast In-shore Attack Craft (FIAC) threats with a single button push…
Vietnam People's Navy
Vietnam’s Russian Restocking ( Updated 21 May 2013 )
Latest update [?] May 21/13: SU-30s. A Tuoi Tre News article offers some revealing information, alongside the classic Stakhanovite paens. “Living in rented houses, many of the [SU-30 maintenance…
