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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 month…

Sevmash in soup

A report in the Barent's Observer today. After a deluge of wake-up calls about how the Russians are murderously cheating us over the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft…

EXCLUSIVE: Concluding thoughts by Admiral Arun Prakash on “Izzat-O-Iqbal”

Admiral Arun Prakash's piece, Is “IZZAT-O-IQBAL”? published in FORCE magazine and reproduced here on LiveFist has received a lot of response, in terms of e-mail, calls…

Updated: New photos of India’s first Phalcon + Air chief on the Phalcon

In an interview to FORCE magazine, here's what Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Fali Major has said: "The first AWACS is expected in October…

Photos: Unified Commanders’ Conference

EXCLUSIVE: A Reflection by Admiral Arun Prakash on Veterans, Honour, Political Antipathy and the 6th Pay Commission

It is LiveFist's privilege that former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash has asked us post this new and typically insightful essay, a column from…

Chetak UAV Advertisement + Admiral Arun Prakash on how it all happened

Just came across this advert for Israel Aerospace Industries' Naval Rotary UAV (NRUAV), a programme they took up after the Indian Navy asked them if it…

Limited Combat Aircraft

I didn't make up that name. It's a name a whole bunch of folks at Vayu Bhawan are calling the LCA Tejas now. As the Aeronautical…

The Tejas Engine Quagmire + Tejas hot weather trials results

There was a briefing at South Block today at which it was finally official (posted on this before, and there have been at least three newspaper…

“Most of us here would give anything to fly a Flanker”

Candid words from a top gun instructor, who now commands roughly half the airborne striking force that the US Navy has over the Pacific. More than…

Photos: Graduation parade at the National Defence Academy, Pune

MiG’s new General Director answers India questions

RAC-MiG's new General Director Anatoly Belov, who comes in at a troubled time for the legendary corporation, gave an interesting interview to Kommersant's Alexandra Gritskova and…