My friend and colleague on the defence beat Gautam Datt just forwarded this article from Sainik Samachar to me — a wonderful account of how the T-54 seaward defence ship was converted into a diving reef at Karwar. It was…

Just found this on the Zee News website. They’ve got this habit of pinching agency copy and slapping “Bureau Report” at the bottom, for what it’s worth, so this is some agency copy, I don’t know which. Am in Hyderabad…

All photos belong to their respective copyright holders. From top: Indian pilots in T-45 Goshawks during carrier training in Kingsville, Texas; INS Viraat during refit; fighter pilot’s photo from the MiG-21 cockpit; some of the Indian Navy pilots trained in…

I don’t know if anyone’s seen these photos. They were apparently taken in January (not sure if last year or this year, but I suspect, 2007) in Israel where the airplane — the first of three — is undergoing final…