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You could almost predict this would happen when the UK scrapped its aircraft carrier!

South American states ban Falklands vessels from ports

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16280613

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Yup they must must have auxiliary internal fuel bladders. You wouldn't do over-water-flights without adequate reserves.

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Quite hard to believe they did Hindon-Campbell Bay-Hindon without a top-up from an IL-78MKI over Agra (still too much of a stretch) or Kalaikunda (possible). The open source listed range of the C-130J is ~ 2,900 nmi. Add 10% to that and still you fall short. This is not accounting for headwinds and ...

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Happens to the best of them! For those who blamed the Russians for faulty cockpit ergonomics in the first Su-30MKI crash, read the Alaska F-22 crash report.

http://usaf.aib.law.af.mil/ExecSum2011/ ... v%2010.pdf

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Hey Vivek, Really glad you are back writing again. Great stuff. Have you considered publishing your book on Amazon Kindle? https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin I don't own a kindle, but use the Kindle Cloud reader, a free app on Google Chrome. I guess it would be a great way to ensure you g...

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A sweet little nugget from a BBC news report - "On a lighter note, the preoccupation with American activities in Pakistan has meant that Indians - traditionally the most watched nationals - are having an easier time of it. An Indian posted in Islamabad recently joked that the intelligence agenc...

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Druv goes missing in Sikkim...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a ... 715169.ece

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Speechless... That's airmanship.

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This Shifuji is great inspiration for a comic strip. He is totally LOL ROTFL!

Wish I could draw!

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@Bala: The very real depiction of loss ratios is what I like about Mr Ahuja's writing. Granted, India is going to win in the end, but with a heavy price. In a post-2015 conflict, the Mig-21, even the Bisons, is going to find itself very exposed. Innovative tactics and individual pilot skills can onl...

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@Marten: If I were the US President would I want to bring a conflict in the other end of the Pacific to my western shores, emphasis on cities? Face it, the US itself might have entered the conflict in support of another treaty nation. The "swift and much greater" retaliation would have to ...

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Shiv -- just wanted to put forward a new dimension Why assume that the warhead on the PRC Anti-carrier Ballistic Missile will be conventional?? It makes more sense to arm it with a tactical nuke or a low-yield weapon. In a confrontation with the US, I would assume the PRC wouldn't escalate to launch...

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Mr Nair, Remembering the encounter with Wg Cdr Krishna, has awakened something that has been dormant for a while. Well, he is the one who put a devil in a small corner of my head, with the line, "Oh, you ride a Bullet, you must learn a helicopter now." Can you fill us in on what is the sta...

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I remember being at the Sarang Aero-India '07 crash site, the morning after the incident. The mood of the team, whom we met with the commander of Yelahanka AFB was sombre and you could clearly sense they were shocked. But the spirit was simply "The show must go on". The media was as usual ...

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Mr Nair, What do your service rules say about blogging about your daily life??? Ok, even if you can't write with your real name or mention real events in detail, can you write a blog like this one... http://flightlevel390.blogspot.com/ This blog is written by an American commercial pilot who calls h...

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Great to see Mr. Nair here. Just thought I should post links to the two afternoons before Aero India 07, I spent with HAL's rotary test team and the Tejas test team at the NFTC. There was so much I learnt at my time there and pity I could accommodate only little in my stories. The Dhruv team - http:...

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Even the first link works now.

Cheers

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Hope this works. MU has no limit, I think.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3VHUE2F1

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You need patience for all the good things in life.... So, I wait for Mr. Ahuja again... In the meantime, I went through the whole scenario again and compiled it into a file, of course with author credit in bold to Mr. Ahuja. If anyone else wants to read it again here is the link... http://rapidshare...

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Guess the flight landed at the HAL Airport, no sign of them coming back to Helicopter Division yet. But must say, what a PR opportunity for HAL, the Dhruv being the chase aircraft for the LCH! Some observations from the brief sighting: 1) The LCH is quieter than the Dhruv. Heard the Dhruv, but the L...

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FLIGHT ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!! LCH flies in stormy skies! The LCH just took off from HAL's Helicopter Division about fifteen mins ago. Was on my terrace enjoying the strong wind and light rain, when suddenly a Dhruv popped up. I was wondering why they are flying in such gusty conditions and then another c...

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Found some gorgeous pics from a recent Russian tank-ex. Awesome photography

http://tinyurl.com/y85gndl

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You want to see them grinning and smirking together???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8592472.stm

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Brake chute wear... first chute (top) visible fraying in centre-right corner. That apart... The point I am trying to make is trying to figure out the accumulated flight hours of SB 023. We all know SB 001-18 were plain-jane flankers, from SB 019, MKI begins. So SB 023 must have done quite some air m...

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@Prasdha: First, I see that you too are a "Noobie" as your BR forum designation says. Second, I am not a "Noobie", when it comes to aeronautics. I honestly don't care what my BR forum designation is. Finally, I never passed a judgment on the IAF's maintenance practices. I have me...

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Looks like th early birds have been flogged quite a bit now. Check out SB 023 at Vayushakti '10. The radome looks sand-blasted and the paintjob elsewhere on the aircraft skin is literally peeling off. Worse, the brake chute looks battered and frayed. Is the first lot of aircraft overdue for an overh...

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Why 12 AW-101 choppers?? Simple... Security manuals dictate that even though the choppers have all kinds of self-protection, the PM/Prez flight is always three identical choppers which keep intermixing their positions. So any potential threat doesn't know which chopper the VIP target is on. This rul...

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Awesome stuff! I am completely in love with the design, especially the aesthetics of the wing shape. Almost immediately you can notice weapons storage is predominantly in the central bay. I think I can make out four doors. Looks like Sukhoi has ditched the idea of having IR-AAMs in side bays. The F2...

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Don't know how many noticed this on Saturday (Jan 16) evening. An IAF OSA-AK-1 SAM system (launcher, loading vehicle, command vehicle, et al...) was parked near Patparganj, on the highway to Ghaziabad in Delhi. Huddled around were quite a few red-faced IAF personnel and a bemused Delhi police patrol...

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A little bit of an update on the An-32 upgrade program.

The aircraft that were supposed to fly to Kiev in Dec and Jan, haven't left. Blame the severe winter across Europe and Central Asia.

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Talking of the N-ALH, there is an incident that I can now reveal. I had a close friend working with HAL who was present at a meeting between them and the Indian Navy. The MoD was trying to mediate so that everyone went home with something. The navy did not want ANYTHING to do with the N-ALH. A brigh...

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Mechuka land blips on air force radar --- IAF eyes advanced landing grounds in Arunachal Pradesh http://telegraphindia.com/1091231/jsp/n ... 924877.jsp The reporter has got his number totally wrong here. All the eight advanced landing grounds combined might not be more than a 800 acres at most. Its...

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http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=12127 Phew! Finally, some progress for the IAF in litigation with land-grabbers in Jalahalli, on Bangalore's outskirts. I remember some years back Wing Commander Raghunath, the then Bangalore IAF PRO, trying to explain to me the intricacies of th...

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Here is my two cents on the latest Su-30 MKI crash. In the first crash as soon as information about the loss of control surfaced, it was clear it was an avionics issue. But this one is a lot more baffling. It took a bit of time to think hard and assimilate lots of different scraps of data on the MKI...

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Some rare pics of Indian troops on UN duty. This is from MONUC in the DR Congo. This was on the BBC. The story says the UN mission to Congo has failed and has an accompanying slideshow. Link to the original slideshow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8353133.stm http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/...

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I was at the crash site of the Sarang chopper in Bangalore, a few hours after the incident. I must second the opinion that the Dhruv is one tough bird. While trying to pull up after a loop, the Sarang chopper plowed into the ground. It was at the extremes of any design for crashworthiness. The impac...

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More pics of the Russian Su-27 crash, includes one aircraft in flames and pilots ejecting

http://englishrussia.com/?p=4835#more-4835

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Nice blog post on the raging F-22 funding debate in the US

http://tinyurl.com/lhoj5r

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Found this video of the Mig-29 OVT prototype at an unknown air show.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1899

The llink also has pics of the RD-33MK TVC engine. I have seen this very same aircraft at Aero India '07, bloody hell the TVC gives the Mig-29 airframe a new dimension.

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The ejection seat harness of the Su-30MKI failed due to exposure to the sun! I mean this again... what do you say about it... If you use Google Earth or Wikimapia and zoom into Diego Garcia, you will see what little things we can learn from the Americans. They have these nifty collapsible tents to s...

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