The Afghan Air Force has criticized its newly acquired American-made MD 530F helicopters after one of them was destroyed in an accident recently. According to a report by New York Times, the accident happened after a tailwind tipped the helicopter over the edge of a mountain it landed on
CACI International has won a $63.5 million bridge contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) to continue its support for NAWCADs Special Communications Mission Solutions (SCMS) Division
The Ministry Of Defense (MoD) should mention "pragmatic requirements" as part of its request for proposals (RFPs) to industries so they can provide quick and easily deliverable solutions, Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar said at a seminar on 'Outsourcing and Vendor Development by DPSU's and OF's:" in Delhi today. The seminar was organized by FICCI jointly with the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
Israeli defence companies, IAI, Elbit and Rafael, are eyeing joint ventures with Indian companies for manufacturing UAVs, missiles, radars and other defence equipment. “India is a key market and several projects are lined up under the Make in India initiative,” representatives from frontline Israeli defence companies said during a Indo-Israeli industry meeting organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in Delhi yesterday
A US Army helicopter crash-landed in South Korea on Monday, due to a failure in the tail rotor. However, the accident involved no major casualties, authorities were quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency on Monday
Cambodia will soon employ ‘Hero Rats to detect mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) by the end of this year. “The first batch of rats is training to help their human counterparts to clear land still contaminated with mines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) after decades of war,” Anadolu Agency reported Today
The US Air Forces F-16 jet has been crashed in southern Germany on Tuesday morning. The fight plane, assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base in western Germany, crashed at 9:38 a
The Indian Navys Dornier has no safety issues in operations and all customers continue to fly the aircraft. Following the recent accidents involving Dornier aircraft of the Navy and the Coast Guard, Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) chairman T Suvarna Raju, in an interview with Financial Express said that there is no safety issue in operating the Dornier and all customers continue to fly the aircraft
CACI has won a multi-million dollar ongoing contract to provide rapid response technical forensics and exploitation support for the US Army CERDECs Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD). US Armys Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) awarded contract under the Rapid Response Third Generation contract vehicle, increases the size and scope of CACIs work for this customer in its Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) market area
A bomb from an Iraqi warplane accidently fell down on Monday due to technical problem in Eastern Baghdad. Security spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan was quoted as saying by AFP today that one of the bombs became stuck during the aircraft's return to base