Boeing said on Friday that it has completed the first flights of Apache and Chinook military helicopters which will be delivered to India next year. “We look forward to delivering this phenomenal capability to India,” said David Koopersmith, vice president and general manager, Boeing Vertical Lift
The Swedish Air Force's Gripen Jets dropped Paveway guided bombs to extinguish a raging forest fire in central Sweden yesterday. According to Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, the 500-pound class GBU-49/B Paveway precision-guided bomb was dropped from 3,000 metres reaching speeds of 550 km/h before hitting its target
Taiwan on Tuesday put into service 15 Boeing Apache attack helicopters, nicknamed "tank killers," for its formidable firepower to defend against a possible invasion by "enemy landing corps." Beijing has been demanding unification of the little island of Taiwan with mainland China
The Indian Army has received four United States manufactured M777 long-range Ultra-light Howitzers (ULH) and will resume trials at Pokhran later this month. The tests were stopped following a barrel burst caused by faulty ammunition in September last year
Following the Intergovernmental Agreement signed between France and Ukraine on 8 June, Airbus Helicopters has signed a contract with the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior for the purchase of 55 civil helicopters. The 55 aircraft include 21 repurposed H225s, and 10 brand new H145s and 24 H125 for search and rescue (SAR), public services, and emergency medical service (EMS) missions in the country
Russias new amphibious self-propelled tank destroyer will begin state trials in October, a defense industry source has told TASS. "State trials of Sprut-SDM1 are to begin in the fourth quarter of 2018," the source said
Russian Helicopters, part of Rostec State Corporation, has completed the first service contract to the Lao Ministry of Defense by transferring a batch of four repaired Mi-17 helicopters at the official ceremony. The transfer ceremony took place at the air base in Vientiane, the holdings announced Thursday
Turkey will receive deliveries of Teber laser guidance kit for MK-82 and Mk-81 bombs starting this month, Undersecretariat for Defence Industries of Turkey (SSM) said. “Deliveries of the TEBER laser guidance kit, which increases the hit accuracy of MK-82 bombs dropped from our aircrafts, will start this month,” SSM tweeted Wednesday
Japan is slated to dispatch one its largest warships, the Izumo-class helicopter carrier JS Kaga, to the South China Sea that will last for year, two officials with direct knowledge of the operation told Reuters. “This is part Japan's efforts to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific," one of the officials said
The US Army has spent $650,000 to procure new non-lethal Pepper-based handgun, ‘Variable Kinetic System (VKS) for its soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. VKS created by PeperBall Technologies is delivered in the same fashion as a paintball gun, The Army Times reported Thursday