INS Vikramaditya by 2010?
Viktor Litovkin, RIA Novosti’s military commentator and columnist, has written a column in the current issue of India Strategic. Well, the Chief of Naval Staff […]
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IAF Throws Mid-Course Spanner At DRDO’s AWACS
The IAF has formalised its earlier view that the Embraer platform was inadequate for the payload requirements it was looking at for the indigenous AWACS
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Ajai Shukla On His Alleged “Turnaround” on the Arjun MBT
Given that Ajai Shukla has taken the time out to write a full-on rejoinder in the comments section of the last-to-last post (refuting opinion from
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MRCA RfP This Month…?
Just received word that the RfPs for the MRCA contract will be issued this month. There’s been a great deal of activity between Vayu Bhavan
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The End in Sight for Akash
It is now confirmed that the Akash medium range surface-to-air missile programme will formally enter the user trial phase with the Indian Air Force (IAF)
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*MMRCA Contract Update*
The request for proposal (RFP) document for the IAF’s proposed 126 medium multirole combat aircraft (MMRCA) purchase is complete and ready to be fired. The
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PSU/OFB: If they’re so good, why are they so scared?
On May 17, the Trade Union Forum for Self-Reliance in Defence (a formal group comprising trade union officials, DPSU and OFB employees) presented Defence Minister
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Winner of MiG Competition Takes the 35 Up
Got this e-mail release from RAC-MiG yesterday. Nice little snippet. On 29th May 2007, Wing Commander Sharad ‘Pasha‘ Pasricha, Suryakiran aerobatic team member flew a
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Su-30MKMs Fly, India’s Little Victory
This may be a touch parochial, but the delivery of the first two Su-30MKM fighters to the Royal Malaysian Air Force on May 24 at
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Army Asks For Man-Portable UAVs
Last week, the Army presented a fresh reworked QR to the Ministry of Defence for upto 32 man-portable UAVs for “tactical, point-of-interest imaging and rapid
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