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Missing The Woods For The Trees
All it takes for the Indian component of cyberspace to go into a senseless tizzy is for a ‘Bandalbaaz’ masquerading as a journalist to highlight selected quotes from a certain Minister’s interaction...
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Aero India 2015 Show Report-1
Let us begin on a lighter note, before proceeding to more serious and horrifying matters. Firstly, take a look below at the booth of Italy’s Finmeccanica Group. For reasons unknown to me, this...
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Badlands Of 'Eastern Nagaland' Inside Myanmar
But what follows below is a far bigger internal problem.The ARIF (below) was once supported by Bangladesh in the 1980s, but is now a defunct outfit. It may, however, be revived with the assistance of...
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Myanmar Opts For CATIC's FC-1 Light MRCA
Myanmar last March became the second export customer (after Pakistan) for the FC-1 ‘Xiaolong’ light multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) when it inked a contract with the Chinas Aero Technology...
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Spooks: Ours And Theirs
Here is what we do or like to do:And what follows below is how it is done by a superpower:He was reportedly the most successful and valued agent/asset the United States had run inside the Soviet Union...
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New-Generation IRST Systems From China
The above is a laser designation pod that also mounts an integral IRST sensor. Shown above and below are IRST sensors that have multiple mounting options, ranging from combat aircraft to helicopters...
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PLAAF's BMD Network Takes Shape
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has taken the first concrete step towards the establishment of a national ballistic missile defence (BMD) system with the construction of an initial...
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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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MAKS 2015 Show Report-1: Russia Is Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Case
Moscow today is trying to deal with several crises at the same time. Firstly, there is the severe economic crisis brought on by the collapse in the price of crude oil and the continuing bite of Western...
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The IAF’s Perception Management Disconnect & Its Plans For TMD Network
The customary press conference given by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) every year prior to Air Force Day (which falls on October 8) by and large targets contemporary...
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Striving For An Achievable Force-Mix
Since the 1950s the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been striving for attaining a balanced force-mix of combat aircraft platforms, be they deep-penetration strike aircraft (DPSA), medium multi-role combat...
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Pakistan Tests New Joint Services 'Air-Sea Battle' Concepts During EX Sea...
Pakistan’s on-going EX Sea Spark 2015, jointly conducted by the Pakistan Navy and the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in the northern Arabian Sea, has seen the participation of the PAF’s ZDK-03 Karakoram...
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From Varyag To Liaoning CV-16: The Untold Saga Of A 16-Year Journey
It was in late April 1970 that the PLA Navy (PLAN) had formed a team led by Admiral Liu Huaqing (who later became the PLAN Chief from 1982 till 1988 and was also a CMC member from 1988 to 1997) to...
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VVIP B.777-300ERs For IAF
Following the green-light from the Defence Acquisition Council last May, the process of buying back two Boeing B.777-300ERs from Air India for the Indian Air Force’s Palam-based Communications Squadron...
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Let's End 2015 On A Sober Note
Despite the PLA Navy’s first aircraft carrier, the CV-16 Liaoning, received its first two Shenyang J-15 H-MRCAs on November 23, 2012, the J-15s to this day haven’t been flight-tested in fully...
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