Update: Trishul
Here’s what Defence Minister AK Antony said in Parliament today about the Trishul SAM: Trishul missile system is not a failure. Technically it has met […]
Indigenous Equipment
Arjun’s Demons To Rest?
Contrary to what reports in the newspapers and television have reflected, the Arjun MBT programme has actually found a voice of unlikely support in the
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Next ABM Test in June
Wrote this for The Indian Express in January. Thought I’d re-post, ahead of the next ABM test next month: As part of the newly unveiled
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Hope For Trishul
As we’ve read in a few recent reports, and to be made official by the Ministry of Defence later this month, DRDO’s Trishul point defence
Indian Army and Air Force lack research temper!
Here’s a piece one of our commenters left a link to. Here’s the original from Frontier India. It talks of the DRDO series I was
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The DRDO Debate Deserves Further Debate
Hopefully it’s not too late to post this here. Following the Delayed Research Derailed Organisation series in The Indian Express last year, I received this
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A Pantheon of Holy Cows
A brilliant column by Harish Khare in The Hindu (quite certainly one of the most sober, eloquent and insightful columnists in the country today) is
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Astra BVRAAM Tests Continue
The Astra beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) will go through its a series of tests on March 26 and March 27 at Complex II
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The Expert Panel on DRDO
I’d reported on January 19 in The Indian Express on the new “independent and external” panel of experts that has been ordered by the government
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Not just high-altitude chikki
Will an empowered and independent committee mandated with dissecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) be able to cure half a century’s legacy of
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