CUT THROTTLE #8: IAF Chief Visits Hindustan Aero
The last time I did a Cut Throttle toon was in 2011! I’m going to try and put out at least one a week from […]
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AIR FORCE
Feast Your Eyes On This: Here’s #Garuda5 Mid-air
These beauties just landed: formation flights of French Air Force Rafales with an IAF MiG-27 and Su-30 MKI over Rajasthan for #Garuda5. More soon.
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French Pilots Fly IAF Flankers & Floggers, Indian Pilots Take Rafales Up At #Garuda5
We don’t know yet if French Air Force chief General Denis Mercier (met him last year) will get behind the stick on an IAF Flanker
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Indian Light Copter Bid Extended 7 Times, Could Exasperated Airbus Eject?
Two days after India’s new government took office on May 26, Airbus Helicopters (formerly Eurocopter) wrote the latest in a string of exasperated letters to
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Exclusive: When India’s LCA-Navy Quietly Went Supersonic
Chanced upon these photos that I hadn’t seen before — not sure if any of you have. The first prototype of India’s carrier-borne STOBAR fighter,
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As IAF Pleads For Speed, Another Young Pilot Killed In MiG-21 Crash
Squadron Leader S. Raghuvanshi, in his early thirties, perished today in a MiG-21 crash about 10-km from Avantipora in India’s northernmost state Jammu & Kashmir.
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90-min Before New Defence Minister Takes Over, IAF MiG-21 Crashes, Pilot Killed
REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO Just about 90 minutes before India’s new defence minister Arun Jaitley got into his new boots at the MoD this morning, a sharp,
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Indian AWACS Reloaded: Competition For 6 Aircraft Announced
HS-748 AWACS TEST PLATFORM THAT CRASHED IN 1999 A six-aircraft AWACS fleet for the Indian Air Force is now properly under way. After formal project
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HAL’s IJT Delayed, IAF Scouts Foreign Source
The face-off between the Indian Air Force and HAL over the basic trainer programme festers nastily, much of it in public. But here’s something that’s
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HJT-36 Target FOC By Dec 2014, Says MoD
The HJT-36 Sitara intermediate jet trainer hasn’t obtained initial operational clearance (IOC) yet, but a statement was submitted in Parliament today providing some fresh timelines.
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