BEIJING (AFP) - China’s navy has taken delivery of a new type of stealth frigate that is expected to bolster the country’s maritime defences amid territorial disputes, state media reported Tuesday. The ship, identified by the official Xinhua news agency as a “Type 056 stealth ...

In the days after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistans intelligence service probably allowed Chinese military engineers to examine the wreckage of a stealth American helicopter that crashed during the operation, according to American officials and others familiar with the classified ...

WASHINGTON - The CIA used sophisticated new stealth drone aircraft to fly dozens of secret missions deep into Pakistani airspace and monitor the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Citing current and former U.S. officials, the newspaper said the ...

China has conducted the first test-flight of its J-20 stealth fighter, Chinese President Hu Jintao has confirmed to US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. The confirmation came after images of the 15-minute flight in Chengdu appeared on several Chinese websites. Mr Hu said that the flight had not been ...

The Pentagon has ordered some 31 F-35 stealth fighter jets from American multinational Lockheed Martin in a deal worth some USD 3.5 billion, the company has said. The contract for the Joint Strike Fighters sets out a delivery of 30 planes for the US Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy as well as one ...

India plans to cost nearly six billion U.S. dollar to jointly develop a stealth fighter with Russia over the next ten years, local media reported on Sunday. Following years of hard negotiations, India has finalized a preliminary design contract(PDC) with Russia. In which, India will jointly develop ...

A dozen F-22 stealth fighter jets will be deployed to the southern Japan island of Okinawa for three months from January, the Air Force said in a statement on Wednesday. It will be their second deployment to the island in two years. The F-22s, the newest fighter in the Air Force, are part of the ...