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From Prithvi To Pralay
Although precision-guided, conventionally-armed surface-to-surface battlefield support missiles (SS-BSM) first developed by the US began to surface in the late 1980s and were subsequently combat-proven...
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IAF's Almaz-Antey S-400 Triumf ADMS Deployment Plans Explained
Following the signature of a contract on October 5 that is valued valued at US$5.43 billion, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set to receive its initial five squadrons of the Almaz-Antey S-400 Triumf...
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The Multi-Phase Castration Of HAL: From Early 1960s Till To Date
Off late, it has become extremely fashionable to refer to the MoD-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) as a ‘strategic asset’ and shed crocodile tears about the ‘diminishing status’ of India’s premier...
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Airshow China 2018 Expo Highlights-1
Airborne Multi-Mode RadarsAir-Defence Guided-WeaponsThe FM-2000 SHORADS (above) is meant primarily for export and it visually resembles the TOR-M1 SHORADS, which China had acquired in the 1990s from...
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24 Arjun ARRVs Being Ordered From HVF & BEML For Delivery By 2021
The Arjun ARRVs will support the two Arjun Mk.1 and two Arjun Mk.1A Regiments that will be permanently deployed in Rajasthan, since the Indian Army has decided that they will never be employed in the...
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Miscellaneous Year-End Jottings
Wu Jian Qi, the CETC Group’s Chief Engineer, confirmed at a recent presentation that a metric-wave radar detected and traced the route of a USAF F-22 Raptor at a distance of 450km in 2013, whereas none...
View ArticleCompendium Of Indian Army's Cross-LoC ‘Jawaabi Karavaee’ (Retaliatory Action)...
On the night of March 26-27, 1998 the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) had massacred 29 Hindu villagers at Prankote and Dhakikot by slitting the throats of their victims, which included women and...
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End Of A Sordid Chapter, While A New Positive Chapter Begins
On January 25, 2019, when India and South Africa on formally agreed on a three-year programme to boost their two-decade-old strategic partnership in key areas such as trade, defence, maritime security...
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BVRAAMs, LRAAMs & ASMs Powered By SFDR
The successful ground-launch and flight-testing on February 8, 2019 of a solid-fuel ducted ramjet (SFDR) as the propulsion sustainer component that has been indigenously developed by the MoD-owned...
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Aero India 2019 Highlights-1
Highlights of February 20Looks like ADA has taken all my earlier recommendations quite seriously, if the maiden display of the Tejas AF Mk.2 MWF is to be believed!The 23mm GSH cannon will be located on...
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Decoding The IAF's February 26 Non-Military Pre-Emptive Airstrike & February...
Out of the earmarked strike-package of six IAF Mirage 2000s, it can now be safely inferred (based on local eye-witness accounts from Jabba Village in Balakot) that in the pre-dawn hours of February 26,...
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Selected Excerpts From A Primer On Pakistan-Orchestrated 'Jihad'
While the international Jihadi brigades were regrouping in Afghanistan and Pakistan throughout the 1980s, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate was staffed by religiosity-enthused personnel...
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From LCA Mk.1 To MWF-AF Mk.2: Mapping The Progression
Tejas Mk.1 LCATejas Mk.1A LCALCA-AF Mk.2LCA Navy Mk.2MWF-AF Mk.2
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How Modernisation of IAF’s Fleet of MRCAs Has Been Mis-Managed &...
If anyone wants to go deep into why the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) fleet of multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) was sub-optimally utilised on the morning of February 27, 2019 over the skies of Jammu &...
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GRSE Inks Contract For Supplying 8 ASW-SWC To Indian Navy
The RFP for building 16 anti-submarine warfare shallow-water craft (ASW-SWC) to be built to an Indian design was issued in April 2014.It was in December 2017 that Cochin Shipyard Ltd’s (CSL) offer...
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About SDRs, Jaguar MAX & Alpha-S Multi-Purpose UAS
Certification-related testing of the DRDO/DEAL-developed High Frequency (HF), Very High Frequency (VHF) and Ultra High Frequency (UHF) software-defined radio (SDR-NC), covering a waveband of 3...
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'Desi' Active RF Seeker For Astra-1 & Astra-2 BVRAAMs, QR-SAM & Akash-1S...
Technological convergence coupled with engineering innovation have resulted in the indigenous Ku-band active RF seeker developed by the DRDO’s Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat (RCI) being adopted...
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And Here Come The SPICE-1000 PGMs For Punitive Cross-LoC Air-Assaults
A transformational change in counter-terror operations doctrine that originated two years is now set to be the ‘NEW NORMAL’. The Govt of India has mandated that the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) offensive...
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