Category: Notizie Estero

BEIJING — China’s military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships, possibly as training targets, in the desert of Xinjiang, satellite images by Maxar showed on Sunday.

These mockups reflect China’s efforts to build up anti-carrier capabilities, sp…

SEOUL — Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said Tuesday that it has signed a 636.3 billion won (US$ 539.7 million) deal to build an Aegis destroyer of the South Korean Navy.

Under the deal with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, Hyundai Heavy Industries will deliver the warship, which is…

BERNE — Defense Minister Viola Amherd doesn’t miss an opportunity to promote the American aircraft, telling anyone who will listen that the F-35 stealth plane Switzerland wants to buy is not only the best fighter plane, but also the cheapest.

In a more timid way, however, she has just announced…

MOSCOW — A test-launch program of Russia’s latest Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) have been re-adjusted and only one launch will take place this year instead of the previously planned two launches, a source in the country’s military and industrial sector told TASS on Tuesday.

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Russia has signed a contract with China to jointly develop a multipurpose heavy helicopter, state-owned Russian Helicopters said on Monday, in a sign of closer technological cooperation between Moscow and the world’s no. 2 economy.

Russia will contribute parts for the aircraft including its tran…

China on Monday delivered to Pakistan the largest and most advanced warship China has ever exported, in a move that highlights the friendship between the two countries and will contribute to the two countries’ all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.

Designed and built by China State Shipbu…