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 The First Of Two Corvettes On Order For The Pakistan Navy Was Launched On 17 May At The Facilities Of Dutch Shipbuilder Damen In Galati, Romania, Photo Credit: Pakistan Navy
On 17 May 2019, Damen Shipyards launched the first of two Pakistan Navy (PN) 2,300-ton corvettes from its facilities in Galati, Romania. The first ship – previously termed an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) – has a displacement of 2,300 tons. These ships are slated to join the PN by end of 2019, and will serve as a multi-mission corvette. The second ship will join the PN fleet by mid-2020... ...
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 The Belgorod Nuclear Powered Submarine, Photo Credit: OLEG KULESHOV/GETTY IMAGES
On April 23rd, Russia launched the world’s longest submarine, the special mission submarine Belgorod. Designed to support a variety of military missions, including the Poseidon long-range strategic nuclear torpedo, which was previously known as Status-6 AKA Kanyon, the sub is by far larger than anything operated by any other naval force, including the U.S. Navy... ...
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 Turkey’s Largest Military Exercise, 'Sea Wolf' (Denizkurdu) 2019 Held By Turkish Naval Forces Command Offshore Antalya, Turkey On May 14, 2019. Photo Credit: Suleyman Elcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Military exercise, Sea Wolf (Denizkurdu) 2019, was held by the Turkish Navy simultaneously in three seas, including the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.
The exercise, supervised by the Turkish navy, will ran from May 13 through May 25 in the eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Sea with 131 warships, 57 warplanes and 33 helicopters and participation of 25,900 military personnel. During the drill, Turkish Naval Forces carried out strategic and operational exercise with scenarios similar to crisis-tension situations and wartime maneuvers... ...
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 It Took More Than Eight Years To Refurbish And Upgrade The Liaoning, Which Was Launched In 2012, Photo Credit: Xinhua
New commercial satellite photos published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington show what is almost certainly the early stages of construction of China’s third aircraft carrier in Jiangnan Shipyard and there’s a chance that this behemoth with an approximate 80,000 tons displacement might have nuclear propulsion. The earlier two ships which have displacements of 60,000 – 70,000 tons of displacements were refit and built in the Dalian Shipyard... ...
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 Photo Credit: Sgt. L.C. Clipper. U.S. Military Personnel Inspect An Egyptian Mirage 5 Aircraft On Display During The Multinational Joint Service Exercise "Bright Star '85" At Cairo West Air Base, Al Qahirah, Egypt, On 1st August 1985.
Pakistan plans to procure a batch of 30 Mirage 5 fighters from Egypt. The contract with Egypt had been under negotiation for a couple of years, and now PAF is set to receive the fighters from the Egyptian Air Force.
Alan Warne from Asian Military Review was revealed the development while conducting an interview with Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Chief Mujahid Anwar Khan... ...
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 Photo Credit: Indian Navy. India's INS Chakra, A Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine Leased From Russia, At The Annual TROPEX Exercise In 2014.
India and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement for a 10-year lease of a Russian nuclear submarine this week. The deal which is worth around $3 billion. It will a third time that Indian Navy lease a Russian submarine. The first such instance was in 1988, when the Indian Navy inducted a Project 670 Skat-class (NATO classification: Charlie-class) nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, renamed as INS Chakra, on a three-year lease... ...
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 Photo Credit: Min Aung Hlaing. Sukhoi Su-30SME Assembled For Myanmar Air Force.
On 22 April, the Tatmadaw Lei (Myanmar Air Force) Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing visited the Irkutsk Aviation Plant located at Irkutsk, Russia. The Senior-General was in Russia to attend the 8th Moscow Conference on International Security. The Senior-General was shown the first assembled Sukhoi Su-30SME, although still in primer, destined for the Myanmar Air Force. According to the information given, the aircraft already finished its maiden flight and is reported to be delivered to Myanmar Air Force soon... ...
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 Photo Credit: JMSDF. Japan Commissions Second Asahi-Class Destroyer JS Shiranui.
The JS Shiranui, second Asahi-class guided-missile destroyer, was commissioned into Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) service in a ceremony held at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagasaki Shipyard on February 27... ...
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The Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammed, attended this year’s Pakistan Day parade and was treated to an acrobatic performance by a group of JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighters. The aircraft is assembled in Pakistan and was developed jointly by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex/Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (PAC/CAC)... ...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated a Kalashnikov plant in the Indian town of Amethi in the northeastern province of Uttar Pradesh. It set to produce at least 750,000 of AK-203s for the army locally, as the Indian forces are planning to steadily phase out their aging INSAS assault rifles which are rife with multitudes of complaints from the soldiers in the field thus address India’s struggle to modernize its Army’s small arms... ...
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