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In recent months, Pax River personnel may have noticed a new, uniquely shaped tailless aircraft on the runway, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D). “This summer will be full of activity as the team braces for X-47B’s first flight here and arrival of the second X-47B air...

The Russian Air Force will receive the first batch of prototypes of its fifth-generation T-50 fighter for performance testing in 2013, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Thursday. The T-50, developed under the PAK FA program (Future Aviation System for Tactical Air Force) at the Sukhoi...

The Obama administration is trying to convince the US Congress to approve the sale of spy drones to Turkey for its campaign against Kurdish rebels, the Turkish president was quoted as saying Tuesday. “Actually the administration has a positive stance (over the sale),” President Abdullah Gul...

China has cancelled a high-level military trip to Japan, state press said Wednesday, as the neighbours bicker over a disputed island chain and a recent Uighur symposium in Tokyo that angered Beijing. Guo Boxiong, vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission and China’s highest...

The maiden flight of the second fully modified Embraer aircraft for India-developed Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) System took place on April 4 at Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo in Brazil. This aircraft will be delivered to India in June 2012. The other mission systems will then...

New Delhi: Having jolted the government over the critical operational gaps in its military capabilities, the Army is now pushing hard for fasttrack policies and acquisitions to “enhance its combat ratio” versus China as well as “upgrade its combat edge” against Pakistan...

Seoul: North Korea, pressing ahead with a rocket launch in defiance of a UN resolution, is also preparing a third nuclear weapons test, South Korean news reports said on Sunday, a move bound to scare neighbors and infuriate the West. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted an unidentified...

The U.S. Army's AH-64 Apache Block III next-generation attack helicopter is finishing up its Initial Operational Test and Evaluation at Fort Irwin, Calif., and should be ready to deploy with Soldiers sometime next year, officials said April 2 at the Army Aviation Association of America's 2012...