Good news for Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, CEO & MD of BrahMos Aerospace (also CC R&AD ACE & NS at DRDO HQ). After a meeting with DRDO chief M Natarajan at 11.30AM today, Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt has overruled the…

Just received these photographs of Air India’s new Boeing 777-200 being escorted by IAF’s SU-30 fighters at IGI Airport to mark IAF’s & Air India’s Platinum Jublee Year.

I had mentioned Project Nirbhay a couple of times before, but didn’t get around to actually doing a post on it here, but Sujan Dutta, my colleague on the defence beat (The Telegraph) had this front-pager yesterday. The Nirbhay programme,…

I did a half-hour show on the Ayni air base in West Tajikistan for Headlines Today last Sunday. The base will be declared ready for operations next month under a trilateral agreement between Tajikistan, Russia and India. Incidentally, the use…