Padma Shri Dr Kota Harinarayana, the father of the Tejas programme on the current status of Tejas
A very interesting tid bit is that the if the FCS fails then the Tejas has 300 milli seconds to recover! o_O
A very complex FBW Unstable design by choice
Some news from BHEL's press release from today
Great to hear that the GSL built Improved Talwars are named the "त्रिपुट" Class(Arrow Class, I think)
Also glad to read that the Oto Melara SRGM is the main naval gun on the vessels...
From Exercise Samudra Shakti
The Indian Navy is represented by the Guided Missile Frigate Shivalik, ASW Corvette Kamorta and a P-8I
Look forward to some more images!
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1756478
All images by the Indian Navy
A clean looking Bofors L70
3 of them are radar controlled by the "Flycatcher"
Images shared by the Army on Twitter
Cool operation
You can also see the Reporter Early Warning Radar in the background working away
Image credit on the image
Not an everyday sight
HAL Lancer of the Vajra Corps
IAF SKAT team bus(B7R?)
All three(Hawk/Lancer/Volvo) are proudly built here in Bengaluru :-)
All images shared by the Surya Kiran Aerobatic team on Twitter
AFM has a very detailed report on the Russian Su-30 SM by contributor Alexander Mladenov
Several interesting bits in the report
He calls the Su-30SM as a "Budget derivative of the Su-30MKI"
Cost difference is also massive $42M(Su-30SM) Vs. $70M(Su-30MKI)
Also very interesting for me is that the...
Indian Air Force signs deal with French Air Force to purchase phased out Mirage aircraft
Good move, this fleet is worth its weight in gold for the service