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Pakistan’s new ally Russia

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How the world changes. In the 80s, the US was allied with America fighting the USSR and Islamabad was instrumental in the implosion of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin admitted defeat and retreated from Afghanistan. The ingrates in Washington abandoned Pakistan and on the eve of the victory celebration sanctioned Pakistan for ephemeral faults and [...]

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India to buy PAKFA T-50s after test flights

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Bharat will be purchasing the PAKFA T-50s, billed as FGFA in Bharat. The “T-50s are already in the testing phase with at least a few proto-types already developed. The Russian Ambassador laughed when asked about Bharati input to the design. He said “what has Bharat to offer Russia in terms of design or manufacture”. He [...]

India to buy PAKFA T-50s after test flights

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Russian Air Force gets its first Su-35 Flankers in 2010

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The Russian Defense Ministry will receive its first Su-35 fighter plane by the end of the year, Russia’s Sukhoi Aircraft Design Bureau said on Monday. The first modernized Su-35 was presented at the 2007 MAKS air show outside Moscow. The Russian Defense Ministry signed a deal with Sukhoi on the purchase of 48 modernized Su-35 [...]

Russian Air Force gets its first Su-35 Flankers in 2010

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China Creates Russia’s Su-33 type of Fighter Jet

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China’s Shenyang Aircraft Corporation created a copy of a Russian deck-based Su-33 fighter jet. The Chinese model of the aircraft was called J-15, Interfax reports with reference to the May issue of the Kanwa Asian Defence military publication.

The Chinese fighter jet is based on the Soviet T10K training aircraft, which China received from Ukraine. Chinese engineers found it very difficult to solve the problem of folding wings of deck-based fighter jets. Now the problem has been solved.

China Creates Russia’s Su-33 type of Fighter Jet

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The American U-2 flights over the USSR

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It was the height of the Cold War. Pakistan was an American ally, and the US had a base in what is now called the Khyber-Paktunkhwa province of Pakistan. It was a small base called Badabare near the centuries old city of Peshawar. Gary Power’s U-2 flights would take off from Badabare and fly over [...]

The American U-2 flights over the USSR

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Russia's deadly secret containerized weapon

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A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier.

Potential customers for the formidable Club-K system include Kremlin allies Iran and Venezuela, say defense experts. They worry that countries could pass on the satellite-guided missiles, which are very hard to detect, to terrorist groups.

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Putin happy with T-50 PAKFA test flights

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was satisfied with the tests of a Russian fifth-generation fighter jet. “Flight tests of the fifth-generation fighter are continuing successfully,” Putin said. “Once again I want to thank everyone who worked on this machine, as well as those who are now putting it in the air,” the premier [...]

Putin happy with T-50 PAKFA test flights

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Russia again promises to deliver S-300 to Iran

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The last time that Moscow wanted to hand over the S-300s to iran, the Israeli Prime Minister secretly flew to Moscow and tried to convince Premier Putin not to sell the Surface to Air Missle system called S-300. Russia has been vacillating on the delivery of the S-300 to Iran. Will Russia deliver S-300 to [...]

Russia again promises to deliver S-300 to Iran

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US does not consider PAKFA a 5th gen aircraft

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After a thorough analysis, the verdict is out on the Russian PAK-FA aircraft. The American aircraft experts have criticized the stature of the plane manufactured by Russia. “It looks like a plane we’ve seen before,” Gen. Roger Brady “I don’t know if it’s really a fifth-generation aircraft,”: Gen. Roger Brady,  commander of U.S. Air Forces [...]

US does not consider PAKFA a 5th gen aircraft

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Russia's PAKFA 5th Generation Stealth fighter

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While a section of the Bharati press and the Bharati Defense spin doctors are claiming that the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft will be jointly designed by Russia and Bharat–the facts tell us a different story. We wrote about this a few months ago. Russian FGFA: Tricolor paint. Now all our predictions about the PAKFA are [...]

Russia's PAKFA 5th Generation Stealth fighter

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