Bangladesh Air Force pilot airlifted to Kolkata
Kolkata: A Bangladesh Air Force plane, flown by a cadet pilot, made an emergency landing in Murshidabad district in Bengal last evening. Air Cadet Rashid, who made the emergency landing, has been flown to Kolkata by the Indian Air Force (IAF)...
Turkey's First Modernised T-38 Jet Trainer Is Delivered
Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), as a prime contractor, was awarded a contract by the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) to design, develop and implement an avionics upgrade for the TurAF under the T-38 Avionics...
India sends back Bangladesh Air Force pilot
Flight Cadet Rasheed Sheikh of the BAF was flown back to Dhaka today evening from Kolkata in an AN-32 transport aircraft, Sqn Ldr Priya Joshi, IAF spokesperson, said here.
Rasheed had taken off from Bangladesh Air Force Academy, based in Jessore...
Bangladesh Air Force pilot airlifted to Kolkata
Kolkata: A Bangladesh Air Force plane, flown by a cadet pilot, made an emergency landing in Murshidabad district in Bengal last evening. Air Cadet Rashid, who made the emergency landing, has been flown to Kolkata by the Indian Air Force (IAF). He...
Boeing Begins Maintenance Training for Turkey's Peace Eagle
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has begun an extensive maintenance training program for Turkey's Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program at a Boeing facility near Seattle.
Classroom training for 10 Turkish Air...
World Military Spending Levels Out After 13 Years of Increases
SIPRI: Military Expenditure Rises by 0.3% in 2011, Totalling $1.74 Trillion. World military expenditure in 2011 totalled $1.74 trillion, almost unchanged since 2010 in real terms*, according to figures released today by...
FIDAE 2012: FAdeA to push ahead with Chinese helicopter production
Officials from Fabrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA) say they hope to fly their first locally assembled Z-11 light helicopter at the end of this year.
The plans follow a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Chinese...
Sukhoi Su-30SM: An Indian Gift to Russia’s Air Force
Russia’s Defense Ministry has ordered 30 heavy Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter planes. Given that the same model has been exported to India for more than 10 years, this choice seems both logical and pragmatic.
The Defense Ministry and...
India and Russia to Develop Hypersonic Cruise Missile
Russia and India are in talks to jointly develop a hypersonic cruise missile and will soon agree on a general outline of the design, the head of the BrahMos Indian-Russian cruise missile program, Praveen Pathak, said on Friday at the Defexpo...
Norway Parties Divided Over F-35 Lightning II Costs, Noise
In a week where Deputy Defence Minister Roger Ingebrigtsen travels to Edwards Air Force base, California, and JSF programme head Vice-Admiral David Venlet visits Norway, politicians are divided on how Norway should pay for them...
Helicopters from PZL-Świdnik Delivered to Philippines Air Force
Świdnik SA, an AgustaWestland company, is pleased to announce that the first four Sokol helicopters for the Philippine Air Force, produced in Swidnik, departed Poland Monday morning, February 13, at the start of their...