Next post on Saturday
Apologies for no posts for the last few days. Was really busy with some production work. Next post on Friday evening.
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Indigenous Equipment
Delivery of BrahMos Land System to Army Begins
Here's the Government press release received this afternoon on delivery of the BrahMos to the Army.PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FAST DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-RANGE HYPER-SONIC CRUISE MISSILESIn a…
Defence Procurements
INS Vikramaditya by 2010?
Viktor Litovkin, RIA Novosti's military commentator and columnist, has written a column in the current issue of India Strategic. Well, the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral…
Aircraft And Helicopters
IAF Throws Mid-Course Spanner At DRDO’s AWACS
The IAF has formalised its earlier view that the Embraer platform was inadequate for the payload requirements it was looking at for the indigenous AWACS being…
DRDO
Ajai Shukla On His Alleged “Turnaround” on the Arjun MBT
Given that Ajai Shukla has taken the time out to write a full-on rejoinder in the comments section of the last-to-last post (refuting opinion from some…
Aircraft And Helicopters
MRCA RfP This Month…?
Just received word that the RfPs for the MRCA contract will be issued this month. There's been a great deal of activity between Vayu Bhavan and…
Air Force
The End in Sight for Akash
It is now confirmed that the Akash medium range surface-to-air missile programme will formally enter the user trial phase with the Indian Air Force (IAF) in…
Aircraft And Helicopters
*MMRCA Contract Update*
The request for proposal (RFP) document for the IAF's proposed 126 medium multirole combat aircraft (MMRCA) purchase is complete and ready to be fired. The way…
Indigenous Equipment
PSU/OFB: If they’re so good, why are they so scared?
On May 17, the Trade Union Forum for Self-Reliance in Defence (a formal group comprising trade union officials, DPSU and OFB employees) presented Defence Minister AK…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Winner of MiG Competition Takes the 35 Up
Got this e-mail release from RAC-MiG yesterday. Nice little snippet.On 29th May 2007, Wing Commander Sharad 'Pasha' Pasricha, Suryakiran aerobatic team member flew a sortie in…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Su-30MKMs Fly, India’s Little Victory
This may be a touch parochial, but the delivery of the first two Su-30MKM fighters to the Royal Malaysian Air Force on May 24 at Irkutsk,…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Army Asks For Man-Portable UAVs
Last week, the Army presented a fresh reworked QR to the Ministry of Defence for upto 32 man-portable UAVs for "tactical, point-of-interest imaging and rapid action…