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Fitments Of Project 15A DDG INS Kolkata D-63
Official press-briefings of the type given by the Indian Navy (IN) on August 13 regarding the INS Kolkata D-63—the first of three Project 15A guided-missile destroyers (DDG) on order for the IN—are...
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Heading In The Right Direction.....At Last!
Matters have now progressed just as I had predicted (http://trishul-trident.blogspot.in/2014/08/blindly-muddling-through-with-eyes-wide.html). At last, the AgustaWestland AW-101 VVIP transportation...
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New Force Accretions Are Welcome, But There's More On The Waiting List-1
Before getting into the nitty-gritty of various procurement contracts that were green lighted since last December, it is necessary to clear the mis-conceptions created solely by the ‘desi’ journalists...
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India-PRC Boundary Dispute Decoded
India’s First catastrophic Error: Failing to detail her territorial boundary claims in a consistent manner between 1950 and 1954 and issuing conflicting political maps (below):As a result, the PRC was...
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2nd Test-Flight Of Nirbhay Strategic Cruise Missile A Total Success
The nuclear-capable LACM yesterday had a flight-time lasting 80 minutes and cruised over a distance of 1,157km at a speed of Mach 0.7. Eight more test-flights now remain to be conducted prior to its...
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New Force Accretions Are Welcome, But There's More On The Waiting List-2
The Indian Army’s (IA) special operations forces, known as SF (Para), will at last begin acquiring the vital force-multipliers that were promised to them as far back as 2004! Yesterday, the MoD’s...
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Glimpses Of 10th Airshow China Expo At Zhuhai-1
At the expo, the Pakistan Air Force will ink a contract with China’s state-owned Aerospace Long-March International Trade Co Ltd (ALIT) for acquiring a Regiment of the 70km-range LY-80E...
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IAF Formally Inducts BrahMos-1 Block-3 Into Service
The Indian Air Force (IAF) this morning formally inducted the BrahMos-1 Block-3 ground-launched supersonic ‘top-attack’ cruise missile into service, thus becoming the third Indian armed service to...
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The Devil Always Lurks Within The Detail
Forget this dictum, and the devil will be ever-ready to haul all our arses back to hell. And this is exactly what has bedeviled the Barak-2 LR-SAM programme of the MoD-owned Defence Research &...
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Significant Project Milestones Of S-2/ARIHANT SSBN
Project Commencement Date: November 20, 1988 Commencement of Civil-Engineering Activities at Kalpakkam for Land-Based Nuclear Propulsion Plant (using a 83mWth pressurised water-cooled water-moderated...
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Compounded Irrationalities Due To Systematic Stupidity
As the saying goes, “Those who know much, talk little”. But its meaning seems to have been lost on India’s new Raksha Mantri (Defence Minister) Manohar Parrikar, if we are to believe what he was...
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Consolidated Data On Army-Specific & Air Force-Specific Akash-1 E-SHORADS
Army-Specific VariantAir Force-Specific Variant
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The Great Aero India 2015 Tamaasha
On February 18, when Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi becomes India’s second ever Prime Minister to inaugurate the Aero India expo (the first was Shri H D Deve Gowda), he, accompanied by Defence Minister...
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Analysing Exercise COPE TAUFAN-2014 & The Maiden Deployment To Southeast Asia...
Intertestingly, neither the F-22s nor the Su-30MKMs were seen carrying the DRS Technologies-supplied ACMI pods during the dissimilar air combat exercises.
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Walkaround Of 5.54-tonne Zhi-10 (WZ-10) Thunderbolt Attack Helicopter Of...
The WZ-10 was originally designed by Russia’s Kamov OKB, and was subsequently developed by the PLA’s 602nd Research Institute, Changhe Aircraft Industries Group (CAIG) and China Helicopter Research and...
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Taking The Final Call On What Was Originally Proposed By France On February...
Chronology Of The M-MRCA Procurement Saga* Indian Air Force (IAF) formulates its Air Staff Qualitative Requirement (ASQR) for medium multi-role combat aircraft (M-MRCA) in the late 1990s.* Request for...
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Pakistan Navy's Project S-26/Type 032 Qing-Class & Project S-30/Type 032...
China’s R & D programme to develop the double-hulled Project S-26/Type 032 Qing-class and Project S-30/Type 032 Qing-class SSK submarines—all to be powered by China-developed Stirling Engine...
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Fitments Of Project 15A DDG INS Kolkata D-63
Official press-briefings of the type given by the Indian Navy (IN) on August 13 regarding the INS Kolkata D-63—the first of three Project 15A guided-missile destroyers (DDG) on order for the IN—are...
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Russia's T-14 Object 148 Armata MBT Fails To Impress
R & D work on Russia's clean-slate design T-14 Object 148 Armata main battle tank (MBT) commenced in 2011, with Moscow so far investing 15 billion Rubles (US$239 million) in this R & D project,...
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