Aircraft And Helicopters
P-8 Poseidon for Navy in sight?
The photo to the right is the very first P-8A Poseidon fuselage being lowered into a tooling fixture at Renton, Washington on April 3 this year.…
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Brand New Gripen Photos!
These are brand new Gripen photos. The first two photographs are the inaugural pair of Gripens handed over to the South African Air Force on April…
Aircraft And Helicopters
New awesome Typhoon photos!
Just received some nice new Eurofighter Typhoon photos -- the first three are from this months's 90th anniversary celebrations of the RAF, where four Typhoons are…
J-24 yachts on ENC sailing expedition
Press Release and Photos by the Navy: An eight member team of the Eastern Naval Command was flagged off on a Sailing Expedition from Naval jetty…
Photographs
From Ships to Reefs!
My friend and colleague on the defence beat Gautam Datt just forwarded this article from Sainik Samachar to me -- a wonderful account of how the…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Agency: Three More Phalcons
Just found this on the Zee News website. They've got this habit of pinching agency copy and slapping "Bureau Report" at the bottom, for what it's…
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Random photos… again!
All photos belong to their respective copyright holders. From top: Indian pilots in T-45 Goshawks during carrier training in Kingsville, Texas; INS Viraat during refit; fighter…
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This is the Phalcon!
I don't know if anyone's seen these photos. They were apparently taken in January (not sure if last year or this year, but I suspect, 2007)…
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Adm Arun Prakash responds to “Do we really need an aircraft carrier?”
Responding to the post about the induction of a INS Kesari, one of our commenters, Ankur, suggested that the real need for an aircraft carrier in…
Indigenous Equipment
INS Kesari (Shardul-class) to be commissioned on April 5
INS Kesari (see photos), the Navy's latest amphibious vessel of the Shardul-class will be commissioned into service on April 5 at the IN Jetty at Naval…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Update on HAL’s programmes
HAL chairman Ashok Baweja held his annual press conference yesterday. Here's a press release update of what he said about HAL's projects:ALH new versions: Mr Baweja…
DRDO
DNA: The DRDO Audit Report
It's something we've all been waiting for. My friend and colleague Josy Joseph of DNA has accessed the long-awaited P Rama Rao committee audit report on…