
Washington: The US may rely on its aging fleet of 33 high-flying U-2 spy planes longer than expected due to defence cutbacks, according to a media report. For more than 50 years, the CIA and US military have relied on U-2s to go deep behind enemy lines for vital intelligence-gathering missions. It was first designed during the Eisenhower administration to breach the hidden military strongholds in the Soviet Union. The...

06:39 PM, Jan 30, 2012

Iran: Iranian state TV broadcast video on Thursday of what it said was the high-tech US drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, and lodged a diplomatic complaint over the violation of its airspace. The more than two minutes of footage showed Iranian military officials inspecting what state TV identified as the RQ-170 Sentinel drone, and offered the first evidence that Tehran had captured the aircraft. The...

03:02 AM, Dec 09, 2011

India is set to emerge as an international disaster mitigation hub. ...

02:18 AM, Oct 20, 2009

Her boyfriend is stationed in Iraq with the US Air Force. ...

04:26 PM, Sep 15, 2009

Aircraft hired by US Air Force strayed into Indian airspace over Gujarat. ...

05:22 PM, Jun 20, 2009

The Bollywood hit
Kajra re will take on an American flavour when a US Air Force band belts it in Delhi. ...

11:20 PM, Mar 13, 2007