Russians in Crimea

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(below)Russia also lays red carpet for the US Destroyer Truxtun, by Moving Bastion Anti-Ship Missiles to Crimea

Unconfirmed news reports claim the Russian Navy is deploying land-based ‘Bastion’ anti-ship missile systems as a response to the recent U.S. move entering two naval vessels to the Black Sea. The two American Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG-103) crossed the Bosphorus Strait Friday, headed into the Black Sea, as tensions simmer over Ukraine’s Crimea region. 

The Russians have also moved two naval combatants from the Mediterranean Task Force back to the Black Sea Fleet. Tension is mounting in the Crimea Peninsula with the preparations for a referendum on independence from Ukraine later this week.

China tests Xian Y-20 heavy-duty transport aircraft

Chinese military sites are taking about some record being broken with titles like

Test flight frequency of Y-20 heavy-duty transport aircraft sets new record

but we could not make out what record was broken from those reports?

Ukraine - Several 9K38 Igla SA-18 Grouse MANPADS man-portable missile systems stolen from Ukraine's 80th airmobile regiment

If you are in an international flight flying over THOSE troubled hotspots, it is better to start chanting God's name until the screen on your seat shows those countries have passed.

Earlier there were reports that ManPads were stolen from a military base in Benghazi, Libya. Last week Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are supplying ManPads to Free Syrian Rebels.  Just avoid flying and prefer video conferences or ask the airline pilot for an alternate short cut route over the north and south pole to Thailand.

Source Wikipedia

Man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs) – have gone missing from two Ukrainian military units, according to a high-ranking official in Kiev. Several dozen 9K38 Igla (Needle) air defense systems (SA-18 Grouse in NATO's classification) have been stolen.

The Igla MANPADs are designed to strike down low-flying targets. Their distribution is regulated by a number of international agreements since it’s highly undesirable that this type of weapon gets into the hands of terrorists. Russia and the US have an agreement on MANPADs’ distribution.

India' s New Tank - Arjun Mark II in great Detail

Features of the Arjun Mark II explained by Dr. D Sivakumar - Director Combat vehicles at DRDO.

A total of 89 improvements over Arjun Mark 1.We are following up on the story and shall report on the progress of the project from time to time.

Embattled Turkish PM Threatens to Ban Facebook, YouTube for Promoting “Immorality and Espionage”

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk must be stirred in his grave. !!! 

First the secular military was silenced and generals jailed. Now it is the time of Turkish citizens.

 

 



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State Symbol of Pakistan nowadays.

Pentagon says North Korea developed unmanned strike aircraft from stolen US drone - the Raytheon MQM-107 Streaker

Iran too has developed a stealth fighter after the RQ Sentinel spy drone crashed in Iran on 4 th December 2011. The US is dishing out latest technology to the 'Axis of Evil' powers.

Here is the drone taken from a video grab:

North Korea has deployed an indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle capable of attacking ground targets based on stolen U.S. target drones, the Pentagon revealed in a report to Congress. Images of the North Korean drone in flight were shown as part of a March 2013 military drill, the Pentagon report said. "The drone appeared to be a North Korean copy of a Raytheon MQM-107 Streaker target drone," the report said.

"North Korean press coverage of the event described the UAV as being capable of precision strikes by crashing into the target."

Russian Air Force to start test flights of fifth-generation jet fighter T-50

March and April 2014 are scheduled by Russian Air Force for the testing period, indicating that the aircraft is finally ready and can be passed into service.






Five aircraft are due to be tested, with the fifth T-50 having taken off in October 2013. Just a month later, the overall number of flights exceeded 450. Once the Russian Air Force gets 6 or 8 experimental T-50 jetfighters, the number of flights could easily reach 400 to 500 per year, which provides for carrying out the flight test programme of 2000 flights in a matter of three to four years. The first few T-50 jetfighters are due to arrive at the Lipetsk training centre of the Russian Air Force for retraining Russian military pilots in 2015.