Indigenous Equipment
*FLASH* Army to Take All 14 MBT Arjun Tanks for Trial By September End
An official announcement from the Defence Ministry: The Indian Army today agreed to take all the 14 Main Battle Tanks (MBT) Arjun for trial by September…
Equipment Trials
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Stories in Equipment Trials
Air Force
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) in…
Indigenous Equipment
Next ABM Test in June
Wrote this for The Indian Express in January. Thought I'd re-post, ahead of the next ABM test next month:As part of the newly unveiled programme to…
DRDO
Sagarika, the Secret New Missile
India Today assistant editor Sandeep Unnithan has written an excellent box item on the hush-hush Sagarika missile programme (part of a very readable larger piece on…
Exclusive
M Natarajan on Agni-III
I spoke to M Natarajan on camera yesterday for Headlines Today. Here's the transcript of what he said last evening on the Agni-III launch. He offers…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder – An Analysis
By Mihir Shahfor LiveFistOn March 23 2007, two JF-17 “Thunder” fighters took to the skies for the first time in Pakistan as a part of the…
Aircraft And Helicopters
JF-17s At Last
Two JF-17 Thunders flew on Pakistan Day on March 23 in Islamabad. The two fighters were flown in from Chengdu on March 12 for further test…
Air Force
Astra BVRAAM Tests Continue
The Astra beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) will go through its a series of tests on March 26 and March 27 at Complex II of…
Aircraft And Helicopters
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 what…
DRDO
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 I'd…
