Air Force
Sky’s the limit…
The third successive test firing of the Akash medium range surface to air missile system in as many days, took place this afternoon from the Integrated…
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Aircraft And Helicopters
Rafale to Open Account With Libya!
The worthy Rafale has had a suspiciously jinxed export career. It almost makes you feel sorry for the darn jet. After screwing up the sale of…
DRDO
“Prachi” Looks Up
It is almost official. India's integrated ballistic missile defence ensemble will be called either Prachi or Pratchi -- it is learnt that both these names are…
Aircraft And Helicopters
IAF Completes Exercise Dakshik Prahar
Will write more in detail about this exercise later. But for now, here's the IAF's official press release on the just concluded exercise. And take a…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Tejas Flies with Litening
Another update from ADA today (quoted): The Tejas LCA programme received a major fillip with the first successful flight test using the Litening pod which can…
Exclusive
Admiral Prakash’s 2005 Resignation Letter!
I'm posting these documents because I bet there's a measure of curiosity and interest in the whole War Room Leak case and the investigation that followed.…
Navy
Admiral Overboard?
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta is not known to be a forthright officer who "tells it like it is", and is usually supremely in…
Exclusive
Arun Prakash Protests Award for Outlook
Some of us defence correspondents received a very aggrieved e-mail from former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash a few days ago. Few would be…
Air Force
The Final Trial for Akash
Sorry for the absence. Back today with a special report from the new newspaper of the India Today group, Mail Today. Here's an interesting report by…
Navy
Govt admits to Gorshkov nonsense
The government has finally come on the record about the INS Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov) refurbishment programme at the Sevmash shipyard in North-Western Russia. A short,…
From Nandigram with blood..
Not that I'm trying to bring Nandigram onto this blog, but Mail Today, the new newspaper from the Indian Today Group was launched yesterday, and the…
Back from Nandigram
Sorry for no posts for a few days. I'm in Kolkata -- spent the last few days covering the stuff happening in Nandigram. Back in Delhi…