Hasimara and Third Degree in 1998
Here is an amazing account I received from a retired Air Marshal recently about some of the things that happened in 1997-98 when the government …
Controversy
First LCA Tejas Squadron at Sulur?
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi said on March 12 that the Air Force station at Sulur (Western Tamil Nadu) was being developed into …
India from Google Earth (Part 1)
The government is trying to get Google Earth to go easy on sensitive Indian installations. The government’s latent irritation with Google Earth was legitimised when …
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 …
PGM (Purpose Gone Missing)
In the context of Programme Air Defence (PAD) and Advanced Air Defence (AAD), and all the chatter about Prithvi (most of it incorrect!), I thought …
General Sham(e)
Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but …
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 …
Enter chopper pilot as air chief
God is not a fighter pilot. That is the punch line to an old joke in the Indian Air Force. That one line is today …