Pakistan military technology row 'threatens Israel's strategic relationship with India'
Israel has rejected in strongest terms data recorded and published by the Ministry of Defence which documents the sale of Israeli-manufactured cockpit displays and electronic warfare components for F16 fighter jets to Pakistan in 2010. Further investigations launched by Britain into the deal however at the request of both Israeli and Indian officials have found that it did in fact take place, although they have yet to establish whether it was with the knowledge of the Israeli government. The deal, buried within a public governme…
Indian, Russian Shipyards Join To Overhaul Kilo Subs
NEW DELHI — India's private sector defense major Pipavav Defence & Offshore Engineering Co. (PDOEC) joined hands with Russian shipyard Zvyozdochka Tuesday to overhaul India's Russian -made Kilo-class submarines and possibly provide similar services to other navies in the region. A PDOEC executive said his company will hold 51 percent of equity shares in the proposed joint venture with Zvyozdochka but gave no financial details. The Russian shipyard will provide complete technical assistance to the joint venture in the ove…
Pentagon reviews removing Morocco as host of largest military exercise in Africa
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is looking at alternative locations for the largest military exercise in Africa amid Senate pressure to bump Morocco from its position as an annual host for the drills. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, has led the charge against having Morocco host the African Lion exercise to push back against its control of the disputed Western Sahara. “For more than five decades, the Sahrawi people have been subjected to repeated broken promises and vicious attacks by the Mor…
Russia Ready to Continue Overhaul of Indian Subs
Russia’s Zvyozdochka shipyard said Friday that it could receive by mid-2015 at least two Indian Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines for an overhaul that would extend their service life for another 10 years. “We are expecting the Indian side to deliver one or even two Project 877EKM (improved Kilo-class) submarines for repairs and upgrades with service life extension,” Zvyozdochka general director Vladimir Nikitin told RIA Novosti. Russia has built 10 Kilo class submarines for India and has already overhauled five of them: INS Si…
ISIS claims beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig
The ISIS has beheaded another American -- a former Army Ranger and aid worker who had converted to Islam, the execution video released on Sunday purportedly shows. Abdul-Rahman Kassig, 26, who was earlier called Peter, had been captured in October 2013, but had managed to send a letter to his family with a released hostage. That was his last contact with them. Kassig, who is the third American to be executed by the Sunni militant group, appears in the video with the same ISIS terrorist as the one in all others. The militant was covered…
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