'Bolstering India's conventional military capability against China is in America's strategic interest,' says military historian Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The two hijackers had a message for the pope, who is due to visit the Muslim nation in November
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata took off to the skies in a Boeing F-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft as a co-pilot, his second such flight in two days.
Another passenger Bharat Menon told PTI, "The cabin crew was repeatedly asking the passengers to fasten their seat belts when one of the passengers received a call on his cell phone.
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Earlier, Pakistani military spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor claimed that two Indian Air Force pilots were arrested. One pilot is injured and has been shifted to a hospital, while another one is unhurt, the spokesman had said.
In the early hours of Tuesday, 12 Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 fighter jets entered Pakistani airspace and dropped 1,000-kg laser-guided bombs on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror launch pads across the Line of Control.
New Delhi is also looking at similar systems being offered by Russia and Israel.
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The US Department of Defence has awarded a $284.6 million contract to Lockheed Martin to produce infrared target sight systems for the US Navy and Pakistan, a media report said on Saturday.
The Bush adminstration will also negotiate a $5 billion deal for multi-role combat jet fighters and a state-of- the-art radar sytem with India, while a $230 million weapons deal is in cards for Pakistan.
Air chief S S Tyagi, in Russia on an official visit, was witness to a demonstration of the Mig-35s and came off impressed.
A look at the world's biggest military airshow at RAF Fairford in United Kingdom.
The Trump Administration's consideration in this regard comes months after a successful meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump at the White House on June 26.
Singapore to use IAF station to train personnel
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'It will be helpful towards the solution of the Kashmir problem,' Pakistan High Commissioner A A Khan \ntells Sheela Bhatt.
Blackwill asked India to engage in a major way to help build a civil society in Iraq.
The US would deploy its F-16s and other sophisticated combat aircraft for the exercise christened 'Cope India'
The United States has asked Pakistan to ensure that its territory is not used for planning attacks in India, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said terrorism is being "incubated in India's neighbourhood".
Nadeem Hotiana, Pakistan Embassy spokesman in Washington, confirmed the country was now looking for a paid lobbyist "but has not yet taken any decision", the Dawn reported.
This is following India's decision to acquire the latest Israeli Phalcon system.
Even as hope faded for the family of the pilot flying the missing AirAsia plane, a despairing message came from his daughter.
India is looking at American F-16s and F/A-18 Super Hornets, French Mirages, Swedish Gripens and Russian MiGs.
The Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, also cleared the induction of nine offshore patrol vessels for the navy and the purchase of one C-303 submarine-fired torpedo decoy system from Italy.
Russia will field its latest nuclear capable MiG-35 fighter against US F-16 and the French Mirage 2000 in the tender to be floated for the acquisition of 125 aircraft for IAF to replace its ageing MiG-21 fleet, a top Russian official has said.
Air Marshal Ajit Bhavnani was on Thursday appointed as the new Vice Chief of Air Staff, a key operational post, which was lying vacant for the past 18 days.\n\n
Disappointed over the Egyptian military's deadly crackdown on protesters, the United States has temporarily frozen some of its military aid to Egypt, including deliveries of tanks, F-16 aircraft and missiles as well as $260 million in cash.
The AG said the country needs the Rafale jet to defend itself 'from F-16 fighter planes that recently bombed us'.
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