Taiwan’s AIDC confident of securing IDF upgrade contract
Taiwan’s state-owned Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) is expecting to sign a contract with the government shortly to upgrade around 70 F-CK-1 Indigenous Defence Fighters (IDF), the company revealed to Jane’s on 18 June. An AIDC official said the upgrade would be based on two twin-seater IDF-2 prototypes [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Global defence update
June 24, 2009Global defence update
June 13, 2009Moscow and US to consider joint BMD project
Moscow has said it will consider co-operating with the US over its European ballistic missile defence (BMD) plans by building anti-missile radars in Russia for use by both countries. Responding to an earlier statement from US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said that he would not rule the [...]
Jihad goes intercontinental
June 4, 2009By Walid Phares in Asia Times
Since the deadly attacks in Mumbai last November, counter-terrorism experts worldwide, particularly those based in democracies in the crosshairs, have been drawing long-term conclusions as to the forthcoming type of operations which may hit cities and interests on more than one continent.
Today, we are in the post-Mumbai era where the [...]
