The Sun Sets on the IAF’s Rakshak
I was looking up some old stuff the other day and came upon the rare Sept-Oct 1984 edition of Air University Review journal. A particular […]
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Aircraft And Helicopters
Farewell MiG-23MF of Warlords!
Just got this press release from the IAF. Reproducing it as is: Having soared the Indian skies for nearly 24 years and logging nearly 32,581
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First LCA Tejas Squadron at Sulur?
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi said on March 12 that the Air Force station at Sulur (Western Tamil Nadu) was being developed into
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The Tale of the Indian Navy and the E-2 Hawkeye 2000
Just over two years ago, HAL signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman Corp. to “work together on projects of mutual benefit”. This, their press release
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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
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India from Google Earth (Part 1)
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
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Why isn’t the HAL Tejas part of the MRCA push?
A pertinent question if ever there was one. But like almost everything else in our country — especially when it has to do with impossible
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The Needless IJT Incident of February 8
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 –
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Test-flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet
As I crouched, foetus-like, on a sustained 7.5-G loop in a fighter at 9,000 feet, I knew the best was yet to come. My US
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Farewell, Foxbat
April 16, 2006 The air force station at Bareilly is like any other airbase in the country. Clean, well maintained, neatly pruned hedges, shining insignias