LCA Navy Update
Bumped into Commodore (retd) C.D. Balaji, project director LCA (Navy) this morning at Def Expo’s DRDO pavilion. He says that while the fore and aft […]
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LiveFist EXCLUSIVE: The Truth About BrahMos – Part IV
Part IVWhat’s Really Holding Up The Sub-launched & Air-launched Variants? There’s so much in the press about the air-launched and submarine-launched variants of BrahMos, that
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Kya HAL hai, Dhruv?
For all the large resources that Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) pours into its global publicity drive, the sarkari mentality is a tenacious stain that no
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Herc deal for Lockheed, P-8 to Boeing?
As Lockheed-Martin pops open the champagne to celebrate the Super Hercules deal — believe me, there were last minute hiccups which were roadrolled — all
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The F-35 for India?
Hey everyone. I’ll be doing some special reports on the C-130J, F-35 and F-16 as soon as I’m back to India on Headlines Today, and
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Admiral Prakash’s 2005 Resignation Letter!
I’m posting these documents because I bet there’s a measure of curiosity and interest in the whole War Room Leak case and the investigation that
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Admiral Overboard?
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta is not known to be a forthright officer who “tells it like it is”, and is usually supremely
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Arun Prakash Protests Award for Outlook
Some of us defence correspondents received a very aggrieved e-mail from former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash a few days ago. Few would
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Govt admits to Gorshkov nonsense
The government has finally come on the record about the INS Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov) refurbishment programme at the Sevmash shipyard in North-Western Russia. A
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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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