Fighter Jets

British police arrest two men on Pakistan flight escorted by fighter jets

Reuters | Friday May 24, 2013

British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft" after it was escorted to a different airport by fighter jets.

Pakistan's China-made fighter jets to escort Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's plane

Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 21, 2013

Six JF-17 Thunder jets of the Pakistan Air Force will escort Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's aircraft when it enters Pakistani airspace on Wednesday at the start of his two-day visit, symbolising the close links between the two sides in defence and stra...

Turkish fighter jet lost near Syria in probable accident

Reuters | Monday May 13, 2013

Turkey's military said on Monday that it had lost one of its F-16 fighter jets near Osmaniye, about 50 km (30 miles) from the border with Syria, but NTV television quoted military sources as saying the crash had probably been an accident.

MiG-29 K Squadron commissioned into Indian Navy

Written by Sudhi Ranjan Sen | Sunday May 12, 2013

Defence Minister AK Antony today commissioned the first MiG-29 K - supersonic fighter jets squadron into the Indian Navy at the INS Hansa in Goa.

China to build second, larger carrier for fighter jets: report

Reuters | Wednesday April 24, 2013

China will build a second, larger aircraft carrier capable of carrying more fighter jets, the official Xinhua news service reported late Tuesday, quoting a senior officer with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.

Government hopeful of $15 billion Rafale fighter jet deal going through

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Friday April 12, 2013

Earlier this month, in a rather unusual move, the Indian Air Force (IAF) strongly refuted a report that it was working on a Plan B should its negotiations fail to buy 126 combat jets from Dassault Aviation.

Congress dismisses WikiLeaks on Rajiv Gandhi; come clean, says BJP

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Monday April 8, 2013

Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for an arms deal in the 1970s, according to diplomatic cables published on Monday.

Come clean on WikiLeaks cables on Rajiv Gandhi, BJP tells Congress

Indo-Asian News Service | Monday April 8, 2013

The Congress should "come clean" on the "WikiLeaks revelations" that the late Rajiv Gandhi had been a middleman for a Swedish company looking to sell fighter jets to India in the 1970s, the BJP said on Monday.

Rajiv Gandhi may have been middleman for Swedish jet deal: US cable

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Monday April 8, 2013

Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have operated as a middleman for a Swedish firm that hoped to sell fighter jets to India, US diplomats said in the 70s in cables sent from Delhi to Washington DC.

Mali troops sweep Timbuktu for Islamist rebels after battle

Agence France-Presse | Monday April 1, 2013

Malian troops swept Timbuktu for remaining Islamist fighters after a weekend battle that left seven dead and forced France to dispatch reinforcements and fighter jets to help Mali's army.

US F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid sabre-rattling

Reuters | Monday April 1, 2013

The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the US commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea.

China to buy Russian fighters, subs: state media

Agence France-Presse | Monday March 25, 2013

China has agreed to buy two dozen fighter jets and four submarines from Russia, state media reported Monday, the country's first large-scale weapons technology purchases from Moscow in a decade.

Japan scrambles fighter jets to intercept China plane

Agence France Presse | Thursday February 28, 2013

Japan today scrambled fighter jets to head off a Chinese government plane flying towards disputed islands in the East China Sea, the defence ministry said.

F-35 flights should resume soon: Pentagon official

Agence France-Presse | Monday February 25, 2013

The Pentagon's director of the F-35 programme said Monday the next-generation US fighter jet could be back in the air within a fortnight after an engine crack forced the grounding of test flights.

Pentagon grounds its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets

Press Trust of India | Saturday February 23, 2013

The US military has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets - used in Air Force, the Navy and the Marines - as a precautionary measure after a routine inspection detected a crack on an engine blade.