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Written by Franz Stefan Gady
The first of nine domestically built 3,000-ton diesel-electric air independent propulsion subs was launched on September 14. South Korea has launched the first of a planned fleet of nine 3,000-ton indigenously designed KSS-III (Jangbogo–III-class) diesel-electric attack submarines at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard on Geoje Island, near the port city of Busan... ...
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Written by Brian Wang
In 2019, China will start deploy J-20B stealth fighters with a new Xian WS-15 jet engine. This engine could finally bring China to about the engine performance level of the US PW-119 engine that were installed over 20 years ago in the F22... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
March 10, 2016
King Khalid Military City (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Warplanes roared overhead, tanks rumbled across the desert and smoke filled the sky Thursday for the final day of what Saudi Arabia billed as the region's biggest-ever military exercises. The 12-day "Northern Thunder" manoeuvres in the kingdom's northeast included 20 nations from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Saudi officials said... ...
Written by Franz-Stefan Gady
The Indian Navy’s first indigenously developed ballistic missile nuclear submarine (SSBN), the INS Arihant, could be commissioned as early as next month, according to local media reports.
“It has passed all tests and in many things has surpassed our expectations. Technically the submarine can now be commissioned at any time,” a senior defense official told The Economic Times... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
Reuters — Published, 24 December 2015
NEW DELHI: India's Reliance Defence said on Thursday it had signed a manufacturing and maintenance deal potentially worth $6 billion with Russia's Almaz-Antey, the maker of an air defence system that sources said the Indian military was poised to buy... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
Beijing plans to set up a naval facility in Djibouti, East Africa, to boost counter-piracy and peacekeeping efforts, officials say. The future Chinese installation will be near a US airbase reportedly used for the Pentagon’s drone operations... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
The Russian and Indian defence ministers signed a military-technical cooperation agreement in follow up to the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC), the Russian Defence Ministry press service said Monday... ...
Written by Franz Stefan Gady
Islamabad and Moscow signed an agreement for the purchase of four MI-35 Hind gunships.
In a move possibly inspired by the deepening of U.S.-India defense cooperation, Russia decided to approve the sale of four Mi-35M attack helicopters to Pakistan The Express Tribune reports... ...
Written by PK Ghosh
If media reports are to be believed, the alarm bells in the Indian Ministry of Defence have been ringing again – the ministry was once again taken aback when a modern Yuan-class 335 conventional submarine crossed the Arabian Sea and entered Karachi port on May 22 for a week... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
DOHA, France and Qatar signed a 6.3 billion euro ($7.02 billion) deal on Monday for the sale of 24 Rafale fighter jets, an accord President Francois Hollande hailed as a mark of Gulf Arab regard for French regional strategy including its firm line on Iran... ...
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