First Photo From Akash SAM’s Slam-dunk Week
Smashing week for India’s Akash SAM. Not that it needed any more of a push. But what a week. This image from noon on Friday […]
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More Photos Of The Tejas PV6 First Flight
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Light Chopper Contest 3.0 Begins, Third Time Lucky For Jinxed Indian Effort?
After scrapping the Indian military’s effort to procure light helicopters for the second time in August, the third iteration of the now infamous Reconnaissance &
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Contest Opens: Airbus & Tata Team Up For IAF’s Avro Replacement
This was in the works for a while, and it’s now the first horse in what’s going to be a big and unprecedented race. Full
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Freak Ejection: Big Twist To IAF Su-30 Crash
Big twist to the October 14 Su-30 crash story, and it’s straight from the IAF itself. A statement put out by the IAF a moment
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‘Time To Go, Ram’: When An Indian Air Marshal Punched Out Of A Mirage 2000
On Saturday, 25 Feb 2012, I was driving to a work lunch when I got a phone call about a Mirage 2000H crash in central
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Flanker Trouble: Did Fly-By-Wire Glitch Crash IAF Su-30?
PHOTO / ECONOMICTIMES.COM It was unlikely an engine failure or flame-out that doomed the IAF Su-30 MKI that crashed on Tuesday near the Lohegaon air
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Twice Lucky: Pilot In Yesterday’s Su-30 Crash Also Survived 1st MKI Crash In 2009
Two crashes five years apart. Two punch-outs. Two very close shaves. Twice lucky. That’s the story of the pilot in command of the Su-30 MKI
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Photos From Su-30 Crash Site Offer Big First Clues
First photographs by my alma mater The Indian Express from the site of the Su-30 MKI crash today show a largely intact fuselage and airframe, indicating that
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Fifth IAF Su-30 MKI Crashes, Pilots Safe
REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO What’s the irony that this is the first post after the last one? An Indian Air Force Su-30 MKI air dominance fighter from
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