Category: Asia

Pacific Air Forces follow Aero India 0

Pacific Air Forces follow Aero India 23 with Air Force training exercise in India

Airmen from the U.S. are participating in the exercise Cope India 2023–or CI23– with the Indian Air Force, April 10-21, 2023. The exercise will take place across Indian Air Force stations in Panagarh and...

USAF Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II 0

Lockheed Martin to build 127 F-35 jet fighter-bomber aircraft, avionics, and sensors for U.S. and allies

Combat aircraft designers at Lockheed Martin Corp. will build 127 F-35 jet fighter-bombers for U.S. military services and allies under terms of a $7.8 billion order announced on Friday. The F-35 is a fifth-generation...

Republic of Armenia Air Wing Mi-8MTV-5 0

Armenia 4 Mi-8MTV-5 Hip Armed transport helicopter from Russia

On 25 January 2022, a ceremonial event was held at Erebuni airport (Yerevan) related to the acceptance of new multipurpose helicopters for Armenian Air Defence Force. The event was attended by the Chief of...

Georgian Air Force Su-25UB 0

Wings Over Georgia: Retired Warplanes Can Find New Life in the Georgian Air Force

The recent Independence Day celebrations on May 26 were a beautiful moment of national pride. It was also a showcase of some of the nation’s defense and security forces, complete with a flyover of...

RAAF P-8A Poseidon in Exercise Sea Dragon 0

Australian Maritime Air Power on Show

Maritime air power was on show in Guam as a RAAF P-8A Poseidon participated in Exercise Sea Dragon alongside Japan, Canada, India and the United States, from January 13 to 27. The exercise provided...

A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines 0

A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines

PhilippineS An official ceremony was held on October 13 to hand over six Embraer A-29B Super Tucano close air support aircraft to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) at Clark Air Base, Pampanga. The six...

China Air Force (PLAAF) subsonic H-20 stealth bomber, 20 November 2020 0

China’s new stealth bomber H-20 will allow it to make ‘truly intercontinental’ strikes, report says

China’s subsonic H-20 stealth bomber will give the country a “truly intercontinental” capacity expanding its reach far beyond the country’s seaboard, according to a report by a leading think tank. The bomber is still...

Maldivian National Defence Force (MNDF) Do-228 Maritime Surveillance aircraft 0

India Hands Over Surveillance Aircraft to Maldives Amid Strategic Tussle with China

The requirement for a Dornier Maritime Surveillance aircraft was raised during the visit of former President Abdulla Yameen to India in 2016. While it could not get implemented earlier, the present Ibrahim Solih government...

Georgian Air Force Su-25UB ‘20 Blue’ 0

Georgia to return stored Mi-24P/Vs and Su-25K/UBs to service

The Georgian Ministry of Defence announced on July 24 it would refurbish and upgrade stored Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters and Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft in Tbilisi. Georgian Air Force Su-25UB ‘20 Blue’ being dismantled at...

China’s Next Jet Fighter May Be A Super F-35 0

China’s Next Jet Fighter May Be A Super F-35

Global Times cited a technical paper written by Yang Wei, an aircraft designer at Aviation Industry Corporation of China – and the chief designer of the J-20 stealth fighter. With reports that China is...