During a trip to Moscow, defence editor Craig Hoyle observed "a stark contrast between old and new", he wrote on The DEW Line. While its aerospace manufacturers have benefited from a rush of domestic orders, "elsewhere, Russia's former symbols of military might have been abruptly pushed aside".
At the capital's former airport Khodynka, for example, "there's a rather sad collection of ex-Soviet combat aircraft and helicopters still on the runway, the majority of them in poor condition or having been vandalised" (see above).
On the same blog, Dave Majumdar wondered why neither Lockheed Martin nor the Joint Strike Fighter programme office were at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space event - "strange, since the Department of the Navy 'owns' two of the three F-35 variants".
And on Hyperbola, Philip Hylands noted the maiden launch of India's Agni 5 missile (above).
At the capital's former airport Khodynka, for example, "there's a rather sad collection of ex-Soviet combat aircraft and helicopters still on the runway, the majority of them in poor condition or having been vandalised" (see above). On the same blog, Dave Majumdar wondered why neither Lockheed Martin nor the Joint Strike Fighter programme office were at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space event - "strange, since the Department of the Navy 'owns' two of the three F-35 variants".
Picture: Agni 5 maiden launch. Image courtesy of DRDO
And on Hyperbola, Philip Hylands noted the maiden launch of India's Agni 5 missile (above).
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