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China’s WS-10B With TVC Is A Milestone, But Long Road Ahead
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Year: 2020
Air Platform
US Air Force Buys Eight Turkish F-35A
WASHINGTON (GDC) — After a year of speculation about what would happen to Turkey’s F-35A after the country was ousted from the joint strike fighter program last year, — the U.S. Defense Department procured all eight aircrafts destined for […]
Naval Platforms
RAN tests camcopter drone onboard HMAS Ballarat
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has begun shipborne trials of the Schiebel S-100 Camcopter rotor-winged unmanned aerial system (UAS) on the Anzac-class frigate HMAS Ballarat . The trials, which were held to glean operating data, were conducted […]
Naval Platforms
China’s Type 075 will start maiden voyage
The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ‘s first Type 075 amphibious assault ship, which is believed to be built to play a vital role in island seizing operations, is expected to soon make its maiden […]
Air Platform
British Tempest Fighter Could Be The Most Advanced Six-Generation Fighters In Europe
The U.K.’s sixth-generation fighter jet could be powered by electricity instead of jet fuel. That’s the word from BAE Systems, the lead contractor on the Tempest fighter, which has left open the possibility the aircraft […]
Americas
Secretary Esper Unveils new military symbols banning confederate flags
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper issued a new Defense Department policy last Friday that will act as a de facto ban on the display of the Confederate flag. The new guidance governs the display and depiction of […]
Air Platform
Philippine wants to buy T129 but Turkey can’t get an export license
The Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) has said it still wants to procure the T129 ATAK helicopter from Turkish Aerospace (TA) but that it will seek guarantees from Turkey about the platform’s export availability. […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
French Rafale Could Fire Scalp Cruise Missiles At Ladakh Border
It was bound to happen, and India has no choice. Bullied by a menacing China, it must push every button, and then some. Military strategists know that one good strafing by French-made Rafale’s toting Meteor […]
Air Platform
Turkish Government to back Azerbaijan with armed drones
The Turkish defense industry will always back Azerbaijan with its unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV), ammunition, missiles and electronic warfare (EW) systems, Defense Industries Presidency (SSB) Chairman Ismail Demir said, noting the two countries are […]
Air Platform
Badass F-15EX: U.S. Air Force wants 72 of them
Once F-22 and F-35 cleared the sky, you need something like a flying “bombs and missiles truck” that can flatten the surface of the Earth in a conventional and thermonuclear war by simply pushing a […]