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Taiwan Air Force to get 3 EC225 Super Puma Helicopter

Taiwan said Friday its air force would get three rescue helicopters from Airbus sister company Eurocopter, in a development observers warned could worsen Chinese anger over military sales to the island.

EC225 Super Puma Helicopter

The EC225 long-range transport helicopters, with a total price tag of 110 million dollars, are scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan at [...]

Boeing to Continue Providing F/A-18 Engineering Services to Royal Australian Air Force

WILLIAMTOWN, New South Wales,– Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company , has been awarded a $1.5 million contract for the provision of engineering support services for the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) fleet of F/A-18A/B Hornet aircraft.
The 30-month contract, managed by the Tactical Fighter Systems Program Office (TFSPO) at RAAF [...]

India successfully tested Agni-III missile

BHUBHANESWAR, India — India successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile on Sunday, a defence source said, days after proposing a resumption of talks with arch-rival Pakistan.

India’s Agni III missile is displayed amid heavy fog during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 26, 2010 (Reuters)
The surface-to-surface Agni-III missile with a range of more than 3,000 [...]

Sri Lanka’s military arrested former army chief, Gen.Sarath Fonseka

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s military arrested defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka on Monday on charges he conspired against the president while serving as the country’s top military officer.
Fonseka lost the Jan. 26 election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by an 18 point margin and has since accused his former commander-in-chief of rigging the vote. The [...]

Avalanche kills 17 Indian soldiers in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India — Seventeen Indian soldiers were killed Monday in an avalanche that slammed into a group of 70 combat troops at a high-altitude warfare training camp in Kashmir, the army said Monday.
Army spokesman Colonel Vineet Sood said the avalanche struck in the Khelenmarg mountains, close to the Kashmiri ski resort of Gulmarg, which has [...]

U.S. military bases in Colombia stab to South America : Chavez

CARACAS,  – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that the U.S. bases in Colombia “are a stab against the unity of South America.”
Chavez made this simile during his television and radio program “Hello President” broadcast live from the Bolivar Square in Caracas. The president also said that the right-wing in Latin America was being [...]

NATO special forces storm pirate ship

BRUSSELS — NATO special forces stormed a Slovenian cargo ship captured by pirates in the Gulf of Aden Friday, freeing the crew of 25 in an unprecedented operation, a spokesman for the EU’s naval force said.
The assault and rescue, by Danish NATO forces, was made possible because the crew managed to send out a distress [...]