The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), which oversees the development of India’s Light Combat Aircraft Tejas programme will be sanctioned $542.44-million (Rs 2431.55-crore) to develop the […]
Cost To Develop Tejas Mk-2: $542-million, Mk-1 FOC Only By Dec 2012 Read More »
Two days before retiring from service, Air Marshal SC Mukul, the chief of India’s Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) has instructed a Group Captain-rank officer at
India’s Joint Defence HQ Orders Study On J-20 Read More »
Found these photos in the new edition of Lockheed-Martin’s Code One magazine of the F-16 Conformal Air Refuelling Tank System (CARTS), a Skunk Works led
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I asked IAF vice chief Air Marshal PK Barbora this morning about rumoured issues that the service had with the LCA Tejas IOC parameters. Here’s
There Are Issues, But We’re Reasonably Happy: IAF Vice Chief On Tejas IOC Read More »
A Kuala Lumpur-based institute Grande Strategy (no kidding), which describes itself as a “Muslim think-tank providing strategy and analysis from an Islamic perspective” has published
The following column, exclusive to Livefist, is by a senior IAF officer, who for obvious reasons, cannot be named. I sought his views on the
COLUMN: An IAF View Of The FGFA Partnership Read More »
On the day the FGFA preliminary design contract was signed, I received some pointers from an old IAF source of mine. I requested him to
COMING UP: Truths About The FGFA Read More »
This was the only piece I saw in the papers this morning that sought to question the FGFA deal — all the others were mostly
MAIL TODAY: FGFA Not What It Seems Read More »
India’s Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) has just announced the successful flight test of a Lakshya-2 pilotless targeting drone. According to a DRDO statement today, “Users
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India and Russia have signed a preliminary design contract (PDC) for their joint Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) programme. According to a government statement, “The
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