Chief of Air Staff: “We have now set down parameters and assets for the application of air power in an urban setting”
My interview with Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal FH Major airs tomorrow (Friday) at 7pm on Headlines Today.
Weapons
Exclusive: Faced with stubborn Army, DRDO hunts for third party quality inspector for Arjun MBT
It’s been a sombre week for the Arjun main battle tank. Last week, the Army’s DG Mechanised Forces Lt Gen Dalip Bharadwaj said that the
New home-made OPV Vishwast launched
Press Release from the Coast Guard: 04thJuly 2008 witnessed the achievement of yet another milestone by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Goa Shipyard
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Indo-French Maitri Programme: Don’t repeat BrahMos botch-ups
The Indo-French missile programme Maitri, basically a face-saving bailout of the completely botched Trishul (Dr Prahalada was candid about this when he spoke to me
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The beautiful Light Combat Helicopter!
Thanks to an anonymous commenter for posting the links to these two photos in the comments section to the LSP2 post! The LCH looks marvellous
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Indian attack chopper deal: the 6 contenders
The Indian government has initiated the process to procure 22 attack helicopters for the Indian Air Force. Requests for Proposals were sent out earlier this
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Prithvi-II achieves “near perfect” accuracy
Here’s the press release that the Defence Ministry issued this afternoon: The surface-to-surface ballistic missile Prithvi-II was successfully launched from ITR, Chandipur, Balasore off Orissa
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Pritvi-2 test-fired
The indigenous Prithvi-2 tactical ballistic missile underwent a successful user trial this morning from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Orissa. More details when they
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Last batch of Akash photos…
Photo 1: A rare photograph of the entire Akash system, including sensors, launchers, auto-loaders, support elements and control centres in one frame. Photo 2: Start-up
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Sara Akash
Photo 1: Group Captain SK Verma and Brigadier B Chakravarty inspecting the Akash surface-to-air missile tracked mobile launcher Photos 2: the Rajendra battery level phased