Aircraft And Helicopters
Canberra No More…
It was sort of weird being flown to Agra yesterday because I realised that the first time I was ever going to see an English Electric…
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Indigenous Equipment
Next ABM Test in June
Wrote this for The Indian Express in January. Thought I'd re-post, ahead of the next ABM test next month:As part of the newly unveiled programme to…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Indian Hawk Soars in Tippy Grey!
Check out this beautiful photograph of the BAe Hawk (HT004 I think) in the skies. Found it on the BAe site, but it totally looks superimposed.…
Indigenous Equipment
Hope For Trishul
As we've read in a few recent reports, and to be made official by the Ministry of Defence later this month, DRDO's Trishul point defence SAM…
DRDO
Hope From The New DRDO Advertisement?
Has anyone seen the new DRDO print advertisement? It's in most of the defence glossies. It's a pretty unobtrusive advert with typically sarkari design values (like…
Indigenous Equipment
Indian Army and Air Force lack research temper!
Here's a piece one of our commenters left a link to. Here's the original from Frontier India. It talks of the DRDO series I was co-author…
Army
Arjun To Star At Exercise Ashwamedh!
A piece by Sandeep Dikshit in The Hindu today:The Army is fielding the indigenous Arjun tanks for the first time in simulated war games in the…
Aircraft And Helicopters
The Slow Death Of American Air Power
Saw this piece on the Lexington Institute site. It's by Loren B. Thompson, one of the institute's most prolific researchers. This is an excerpt from a…
Exclusive
The DRDO Debate Deserves Further Debate
Hopefully it's not too late to post this here. Following the Delayed Research Derailed Organisation series in The Indian Express last year, I received this piece…
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Admiral Arun Prakash on the future of NAVAIR
And, our final installment from Admiral Arun Prakash. My final question to him was: As a Naval aviator, your tenure has finally seen a big push…
DRDO
A3 and Credible N-Deterrence
A nice piece by Wilson John in The Pioneer today.Credible N-DeterrenceWilson JohnWilson JohnThe Agni III success will pave the way for a submarine-launched IRBM, which is…
DRDO
Sagarika, the Secret New Missile
India Today assistant editor Sandeep Unnithan has written an excellent box item on the hush-hush Sagarika missile programme (part of a very readable larger piece on…