What about the transports?
For all the build-up and anticipation about the medium multi role combat aircraft (MMRCA) contract for 126 fighters, the IAF’s other backbone is conveniently shuffled […]
What about the transports? Read More »
For all the build-up and anticipation about the medium multi role combat aircraft (MMRCA) contract for 126 fighters, the IAF’s other backbone is conveniently shuffled […]
What about the transports? Read More »
On January 5, Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta told me that aircraft carrier INS Viraat would steam on for another seven years. And the warship’s
INS Viraat Till 2013? Read More »
The government is trying to get Google Earth to go easy on sensitive Indian installations. The government’s latent irritation with Google Earth was legitimised when
India from Google Earth (Part 1) Read More »
I’d reported on January 19 in The Indian Express on the new “independent and external” panel of experts that has been ordered by the government
The Expert Panel on DRDO Read More »
In the context of Programme Air Defence (PAD) and Advanced Air Defence (AAD), and all the chatter about Prithvi (most of it incorrect!), I thought
PGM (Purpose Gone Missing) Read More »
A pertinent question if ever there was one. But like almost everything else in our country — especially when it has to do with impossible
Why isn’t the HAL Tejas part of the MRCA push? Read More »
Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but
If reports suggesting that the accident involving an indigenous Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) on February 8 at Yelahanka were caused by the pilot’s carelessness –
The Needless IJT Incident of February 8 Read More »
Will an empowered and independent committee mandated with dissecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) be able to cure half a century’s legacy of
Not just high-altitude chikki Read More »
God is not a fighter pilot. That is the punch line to an old joke in the Indian Air Force. That one line is today
Enter chopper pilot as air chief Read More »