Union Defence Minister AK Antony will commission MIG-29 K fighter planes into the Indian Navy on May 11 in Goa.

China's decision to ease a boycott of some USD 11 billion in Airbus jet orders followed a high-level appeal from the planemaker urging Beijing to recognize its support over a trade row with Europe, a letter seen by news agency shows.

Union Defence Minister AK Anthony will commission MIG-29 K fighter planes into the Indian Navy on May 11 in Goa. The squadron, named INAS 303 Black Panthers, will be commissioned on May 11 by the Defence Minister at INS Hansa Naval base in the state, Indian Navy PRO said.

The US military 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. All F-35 flight operations have been suspended until the investigation is complete, the Pentagon said in a statement on Saturday.

The United States has delivered four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, Egypt's military and a U.S. military delegation said on Sunday, highlighting military links between the two countries despite Egypt's political upheaval.

The signing of a contract worth around USD 2.2 billion between India and Russia for license production of 42 Su-30MKIs marks a significant step in the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)'s preparedness to manufacture fighter aircrafts indigenously, a top official has said.

A Japanese government spokesman says a Chinese airplane has been spotted in Japanese airspace above southwestern islands controlled by Tokyo but also claimed by Beijing.

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has thrown another bombshell. And this time it is the Gandhi family which is in the firing line. According to a national daily, which has published their findings, Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for a Swedish company in 1970s before he became the Prime Minister.

South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the US deployment of radar-evading fighter planes.

Aiming to boost his country's arms sales to oil-rich Gulf states, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has embarked on a three-day visit to the Middle East to push for the sale of as many as 100 British-made fighter jets worth billions.