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Sad loss of a wonderful pilot and a person .

Taiwan is in price negotiations to buy six Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartans for its armed forces, with industry sources expecting the deal to go ahead in the next year. Taipei has been assessing the C-27J and EADS Casa CN-235 for its medium tactical airlift capability for several years, and...

Thats one of the reason , the other thing is that IMO air force spend huge amount of resources for a pilot to be trained and it takes time to be a good fighter pilot but as our custom in the world a girl if she wants to follow an individual career path, in most of the cases there is pressure on...

Last time i heard it was 70% , some overzealous author bloated the figures and everyone had a field day, why dont we create a sticky out of this thread it will help the other members to correlate various news as to how many Indians are poor, percentage of people living under $2 a day ...

Off topic but i can see a great mod in you, have been following your posts and would have to say that they are highly sensible , intellectual with no nonsense:cheers:

British troops have lost a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan after it was hit by ground fire and destroyed by a Nato bomber to keep it out of Taleban hands. The Chinook was hit by small arms fire as it was taking off north of Sangin, in Helmand province. A special forces unit had disembarked...

Glitch forces SKorea to abort rocket launch By HYUNG-JIN KIM A technical glitch forced South Korea to abort liftoff of its first rocket into space Wednesday, delaying a launch that threatened to heat up tensions with rival North Korea even as they joined in mourning the death of an...

Russia to Deliver 20 Mi-171s to UAE-based Airfreight Aviation Ltd Russian Helicopters, JSC, is to deliver 20 Mi-171 helicopters to the Sharjah, UAE-based Airfreight Aviation Ltd. A contract to that end has been signed at the MAKS 2009 airshow between the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant – the...

Russia formalizes su -35 offer to india. After mentioning India last July among three countries to which the Sukhoi Su-35 would be pitched for export, sources reveal that Rosoboronexport has now formalised an offer to the Indian government. The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is understood...

If this is true then how can the government banks on getting fund from friends from Pakistan to cover the deficit , i am no financial expert so i dont have much knowledge about that but the economy was improving when Musharraf was there and how come suddenly there is such a huge problem , is it...

Dr Shahid Qureshi seems to have a deep understanding of the financial situation in Pakistan sitting in his plush office in U.K , Pakistan is going through a bad phase and it seems that everyone out there have suddenly become authorities and subject matter expert on Pakistan.

Russia fulfils contract for 18 fighters to Malaysia Russia has completed deliveries of 18 Su-30MKM fighters to Malaysia as part of an agreement signed in 2003, the head of the Irkut corporation said on Wednesday. "The last fighters were delivered two days ago," Oleg Demchenko said, without...

By Jim Wolf Raytheon Co (RTN.N), the world's biggest missile maker, said it was developing a new system that, if deployed, could boost Israel's defenses against Iran as soon as 2013 and beef up anti-missile bulwarks worldwide. The system could also help resolve a U.S.-Russian deadlock over...

Russia Air Force admits problems in 5th-generation jet engines Russia's Air Force chief acknowledged on Thursday faults in engines for a fifth-generation fighter jet currently being developed. The Advanced Front-Line Aviation Complex (PAK FA) plane is set to replace the Air Force's...

Gearbox problems delay the Car Nicobar class Fast Attack Craft By Ajai Shukla India’s coastal and maritime problems are growing faster than the fleet of ships needed to deal with them. Here in Kolkata, at Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), two newly built patrol ships have lain...

U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus has arrived here to hold discussions with Pakistan’s military leaders on expediting delivery of US equipment to Pakistan so it can expand its offensive against Taliban militants. The Dawn quoted US officials as saying that the Pakistan Army is...

Russian Air Force Rekindles Upgrade Goals Moscow is on the brink of concluding its largest fighter aircraft order in almost 20 years, with the Russian air force's leader setting far-reaching procurement and restructuring plans. Funding, however, is a fundamental concern. Col. Gen...

Russia decides to resume An-124 cargo plane production Russia's Defense Ministry has decided to resume production of one of the world's largest cargo planes, the An-124 Ruslan (Condor), the country's Air Force chief said on Thursday. Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin told reporters at the MAKS-2009...

Russian Defense Ministry orders 64 Su-family The Russian Defense Ministry and the Sukhoi aircraft maker signed on Tuesday a contract on the delivery of 64 Su fighters to the Russian Air Force. The contract, signed during the MAKS-2009 air show in Zhukovsky near Moscow, stipulates the...

Russia will fulfill a contract on the delivery of eight Su-30MK2 fighters to Vietnam in 2010, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday. Russia and Vietnam signed a of $500 million agreement on the sale of eight Su-30MK2 fighters in January 2009. "The contract was signed in January...