China intercepted an US surveillance plane in Chinese airspace near Hainan Province as per the treaty signed with US, a Chinese military spokesperson said. In response to the US accusation of two Chinese aircraft of performing unsafe maneuver when they intercepted the US surveillance plane while it was flying in the air space near Hainan Province, Senior Colonel Yang Yujun, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense (MND) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was quoted by
Su-30MKI fighters of the Indian Air Force (IAF) participated in offensive counter air ops in which they provided escort cover to the strike elements as part of the Red Flag Alaska 16-1 air exercise involving the Indian and US air forces. Apart from this, the IAF Jaguars DARIN II undertook integrated strike missions dropping practice bombs over the world renowned JPARC Air to Ground Range)
The US Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has completed the first flight tests of the integrated sense-and-avoid (SAA) system that is designed to enable manned and unmanned aircraft to automatically detect nearby aircraft and avoid potential mid-air collisions. An unmanned air vehicle (UAV) repeatedly used the technology demonstration system to detect and track in real time a Cessna 172G aircraft approaching from various vertical and horizontal distances
Indra has won a contract to supply a system of secondary radar and upgrade HF communications system for the Papua New Guinea Navigation Service Corporation. The catalog price of these systems is around 16 million euros
Rockwell Collins plans to announce a number of contract agreements, including one of the largest airline avionics orders in the companys history at the Singapore Air Show 2016. Rockwell Collins will also be making announcements related to military communications and radar system selections by key customers in Asia Pacific
Turkey has said that it refused to allow a Russian reconnaissance plane to overfly its territory near Syria citing disagreement over itinerary plan. "An agreement could not be reached on the itinerary for the reconnaissance flight requested by the Russian Federation for 2-5 February 2016," Turkish foreign ministry was quoted as saying by AFP in a statement Thursday
Two Chinese military planes is said to have entered the overlapping air defense identification zone of South Korea and China on January 31, South Korean authorities said Tuesday, prompting them to scramble fighter jets. According to South Koreas Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Jeon Ha-kyu, the Chinese jets entered the zone near Jeju Island and flew out of it after a warning message by South Korea
Russia's advanced supermaneuverable Su-35S fighter jets have started performing combat missions in Syria last week, the Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday. "Supermaneuverable Su-35S fighters started to carry out military tasks last week at Khmeimim airbase", Maj
Turkey said Saturday that a Russian Su-34 warplane has violated its airspace for the second time despite several warnings. A Foreign Ministry statement on Saturday said that a Russian SU-34 crossed into Turkish airspace from Syria on Friday, ignoring several warnings that were delivered both in Russian and in English by Turkish radar units
Russia will perform an observation flight over the territory of Turkey within the framework of the Open Skies Treaty, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official said today. "As part of implementation of the international Open Skies Treaty, a Russian group of inspectors plans to conduct a surveillance flight on board a Russian An-30B aircraft over the territory of Turkey," chief of the ministrys National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center Sergey Ryzhkov was quoted as saying by TASS on Monday