Hawk Down
The first two of 24 British-built Hawk advanced jet trainers will fly into air force station Bidar later this month (the remaining 42 will be […]
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LCA Weaponisation? Duh!
It just occured to me that the Ministry of Defence may be going slightly overboard with publicity for its defence development programmes. It took me
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Tejas Fires Air-to-Air Missile
Just received this from the MoD: The Light Combat Aircraft ‘TEJAS’ program achieved the most significant milestone yet when it successfully test fired the Close
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Farce Generation Fighter Aircraft
It’s been known for a long while now that the PAK-FA, Russia’s fifth generation fighter programme, is well off the drawing board. In fact, I
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ALH Naval variant in trouble?
Is the Navy having problems with the ALH Dhruv? Well, I bumped into a senior serving Naval officer recently at a party, and he assured
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The Tejas MMR Disaster
It’s with a sigh that we’re all forced to accept that now, even the radar of the Light Combat Aircraft, will be a joint-venture product.
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It’s Official: ELTA to bail out HAL’s Multimode Radar for LCA
This has of course been known for a while now, but now it’s official. Israeli firm ELTA, the radar and electronics subsidiary of IAI, will
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More on Nirbhay
Prasun K Sengupta has this article with lots of info on the Nirbhay cruise missile programme in the latest issue of FORCE. Here it is
HAL Tejas and the MRCA
Heard something quite interesting. If it’s true, it will gladden a lot of hearts, especially some on this blog. Rumour is out that HAL will
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NEWSFLASH! DAC Clears 126 MRCA Procurement
News just in by this MoD press release (!!). Finally!: The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony has cleared
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