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Tejas Mk1s from No.18 Squadron participating in the Exercise Garuda with French Air Force Rafales

Tejas Mk1s from No.18 Squadron 'Flying Bullets' participating in their first ever International Exercise, Exercise Garuda with French Air Force

IAF places order for 70 HTT-40 at Def Expo 2022. The HTT-40 was officially unveiled by PM Modi and the order placed. link

The Tejas Mk2 Project Director confirmed it. I haven't seen a GE statement on it as yet.

It has been confirmed at Def Expo 2022 that the GE F-414-INS6 will be manufactured in India under ToT by GE. The number of engines to be produced will easily go up to 250 given that 6 squadrons of the Tejas Mk2 are confirmed. Typically a single Tejas Mk2 will go through about 1.5 engines in it's...

This is the model displayed at DefExpo 22 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Good footage of the No.18 and No.45 Squadron's home base at AFS Sulur. The program has now delivered a very good light fighter that is the baseline for the Tejas Mk1A and Tejas Mk2 which will be the backbone of the IAF in the next 3 decades, forming over 12 squadrons. That isn't even including...

Tejas, Rafale and Su-30MKI display at the recent Air Force day celebrations..lousy visibility. 'Danny' is Grp Cpt Dhankar who was the former CO of the No.45 'Flying Daggers' Squadron. He was also the Tejas display pilot at LIMA 2019.

Rafale next to a Su-30MKI..

Su-30MKI with SAP-518 wingtip pods and R-27 missiles Excellent news. L&T has the engineering and production capability to bring this to fruition quickly. Am really glad to see the engineering giants from the private sector getting into defence in a big way. Apart from all the jobs it...

Heavier missiles tend to be launched this way, by being ejected from an aircraft and then the motor being fired after safe separation from the aircraft. It is also a requirement for a missile that will be used from a stealth fighter with an Internal Weapons Bay. You obviously cannot fire the...

CASEVAC training with IAF's old Chetak helicopter. A pilot is extricated by a Chetak without being winched into the heli due to it's size limitations. ALH Dhruv is an ideal CASEVAC platform for the IA and IAF given it's cabin size and winch.

Astra Mk2

Basically dual pulse motor..range estimated to be 150+ km. ..What is astonishing is that they never publicized this. There was a NOTAM for a 250 km area by DRDO a couple of months ago, but it isn't clear if this picture is from a drop test or a powered test firing. Most importantly, this is...

First image of an IAF Rafale pilot wearing an Elbit Targo HMDS..from an IAF presentation by ACM VR Chaudhari Much better quality seen here at the 3:50 mark

Prachanda

LCH officially named 'Prachanda' meaning 'Fierce' in Sanskrit..

IAF LCH

And the IA inducts the LCH into service BEFORE the IAF! That came as a surprise! LCH looks amazing in the IA camo scheme compared to the IAF's boring gray scheme

MiG-29UPG armed with live R-77s and R-73Es on an operational sortie in Ladakh region