DRDO
DRDO external audit almost done
The P Rama Rao committee mandated last year with conducting an exhaustive external audit -- the first of its kind -- of DRDO has almost completed…
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Aircraft And Helicopters
Herc deal for Lockheed, P-8 to Boeing?
As Lockheed-Martin pops open the champagne to celebrate the Super Hercules deal -- believe me, there were last minute hiccups which were roadrolled -- all indications…
Not the first!
Just received two rejoinders to my blog post trumpeting the fact that I was the first one to touch see and touch the F-35 Lightning II.…
DRDO
The Hindu: Nag by year-end
Story in The Hindu today:The advanced, third generation, hit-to-kill anti-tank Nag missile is expected to be inducted into the Army by the year-end after the completion…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Supercruising F-16? Uh, No!
A few words from a "carried away" F-16 test pilot at Fort Worth to the media team from India, and we had our papers splashing reports…
Aircraft And Helicopters
The F-35 for India?
Hey everyone. I'll be doing some special reports on the C-130J, F-35 and F-16 as soon as I'm back to India on Headlines Today, and will…
DRDO
DRDO Looks Abroad To Mature ABM System
DRDO's Dr VK Saraswat has held a few rounds of preliminary discussions with officials from Lockheed-Martin about rapidly bringing the indigenous anti-ballistic missile system to maturity.…
F-35!
I think I became the first Indian journalist to see and touch an F-35 Lightning II. Yesterday at Fort Worth, TX. I'm away and haven't been…
DRDO
DRDO turns Fifty
Here's the "backgrounder" that the government released today to ring in the Golden Jubilee event of DRDO. Incidentally, I happened to see the souvenir brochure that…
DRDO
India’s missile programme ends!
That's a happy Dr Prahlada you see in the photo to the right -- DRDO held a press conference this afternoon at the Press Information Bureau…
Army
Panag ka Panga
Don't know if you people have been following the clash between Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor and Northern Commander Lt Gen HS Panag. Well, if you…
Press Release
MoD Year End Review 2007
The Defence Ministry has sent in its traditional year-end review. It's usually enormously entertaining for how over the top it is. Well, for its worth, here's…