The Aviadarts flight skills competitions among combat planes held in Russia will expand beyond the country’s borders in 2018, Russia’s Aerospace Forces Commander Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said. International air forces competitions Aviadarts-2016 kicked off on July 31, in the city of Ryazan. Pilot teams from Russia, China, Belarus and Kazakhstan were partaking in the…
The Indian government has cancelled the much awaited multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft deal worth $1 billion on the grounds of planes’ high operational cost. “We have recently cancelled the MRTT deal with Airbus Defence and Space because platforms are too expensive and not economically viable to operate”, a MoD official who declined to be…
Since the beginning of 2016, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have received over 10,000 samples of armament and military equipment, and over 58,000 samples of ammunition, including anti-tank missiles. Official representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Colonel Oleksandr Chornobay said this at a briefing. “In particular, the army received artillery systems, motor vehicles, thermal imaging cameras,…
Ukrainian Air Force has participated in Bucharest International Air Show in Romania, press service of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine has said. “The Ukrainian delegation was headed by Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine Major General Artur Artemenko”, the report has said. Two Su-27 and Su-27UB jets and military…
Armed forces of the Syrian Arab Republic received the new Su-24M2 all-weather attack aircrafts from Russia. The upgraded Su-24M2 front-line bombers were transferred from presence of Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation within rendering military and technical assistance to the Syrian Army in fight against the terrorist group “Islamic State”. According to unconfirmed information, Syria…
The efficiency of Russia’s air defense system in the northwestern strategic area has grown 1.5 times over the past three years, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. “The district troops have been reequipped and received new warplanes and the S-300V4, S-400, Buk-M2 air defense missile systems, the Pantsir-S1 combined short to medium range surface-to-air missile…
Missile troops of the Eastern Military District from the Primorsky Territory, Russia’s Far East, have carried out the first electronic launches from the Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems in a tactical exercise at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region, southern Russia, the Eastern Military District spokesman Colonel Alexander Gordeyev said. “The electronic launches…