Following a 25-year R & D effort costing 10 billion (US$200 million), series-production of the 25km-range Akash Mk1 extended short range air defence missile system (E-SHORADS) is now being ramped up to meet the increasing demands of both the Indian Air Force (IAF)its launch customer, and the...
Ideally, the Indian Air Force (IAF) would like to procure a total of eight A-50EI PHALCON airborne early warning & control (AEW & C) systems using the Ilyushin IL-76MF airframe, the longstanding spat between Uzbekistans Tashkent Aircraft Production Organisation (TAPO) and Russias...
Union Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju yesterday inaugurated a Computer Numeric Control (CNC) machine centre at the premises of the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL). The facility has been built at a cost of Rs 16 Crores. NSTL is one of the premier research...
Thats correct.....I mean if they really wanted to win, they should have fielded F35 in the first place, why fielding the fighter which is about to be replaced...? I mean you don't wanna share tech, your fighter is not in the top 3 in performance and is technologically behind others then how you...
Man....first of all none of those countries have mountains like Himalayas....But still there should be proper road connectivity, which my friend is there in at-least this area....As far as 6 lanes highways are concerned, you cannot build them everywhere....
The Ambala based 2 Strike corps will engage in a fortnight long excercise starting from May 8th. The Excercise will be conducted on the Rajasthan border and 10,000 troops are sceduled to participate. It includes elements from the artillery and armour. Elements from the Meerut based 22 Div...
LUH built by HAL will be based on Dhruv only.....there won't be much difficulty in operating them.....Also as far as choppers are concerned many forces alround the globe has a variety of choppers....Choppers are not like fighter jets which are very complex and hard to fly....
Because we have a...
I also heard this number but i think its wrong...
IA is inducting more...
There are two projects :
1) 197 LUH to be purchased directly from the vendor (IAF : 64 ,IA : 133)
2) 187 LUH/LOH from HAL (IAF: 61,IA : 126)
Total = 384 LUH (IAF : 125,IA : 259)
I think this 300 chopper list does not...
There are many deals in which US is participating....
1) 10 C17 with a choice to buy 6 more....(this year)
2) Follow on order of 6 C130j....
3) Follow on order of 4 P8i....(i am not sure whether its signed or not, if not then this year because even MOD has even released funds for this)
4) 22...
If this is the case then we should consider buying more light MBTs instead of just 300 which is still on paper.....We need those light tanks and light artillery very quickly
Wary of Chinese activity in the Ladakh sector, the Indian Army has broadened the Srinagar-Leh national highway for the passage of T-72 tanks. Indian Army in 2010 began this effort in 2010 as per the General Officer Commanding of Srinagar-based Chinar Corps Lieutenant General S A Hasnain...
Common man....you cannot say like this....by this way you will atart questioning every other project...The biggest jokes will be, ADA is not able to fully induct a 3++ gen fighter LCA, forget about 5th gen fighter...Simialry, DRDO has not been able to make a Rustam-1, forget about AURA....
I was just kidding man....we are not able to negotiate the cost of upgrade for Mirage with French, forget about the free...
But serriously the money they are asking for up-gradation is huge....they are trying to make huge profit using the fact that Mirage production line is closed but we should...
Yes 2052 is best suited....but i doubt about those banned reports because actually India's name was never mentioned in official reports....only some news agencies reported it....
Hey guys, is there any reports of a higher power engine to be provided with Rafale ??
French were offering it to UAE and Quwait...
I am talking about M88-X program which will be ready by 2013 and the thrust will be 76KN also it can then be used for interception role also....