Bharat Rakshak

@Mody - Both Heron and Heron-TP are MALE not HALE class UAVs. https://www.iai.co.il/p/heron-tp I hope you are right about Tapas but a couple of points that makes me wonder if this is deal for Heron (assembled-in-India) or Hermes 900 (assembled by Adani) and not Tapas - 1. This report specifically me...

PM Modi for indigenous manufacturing to cut defence budget by 50% "Today our nation imports defence equipment in large quantity. Is it not possible that our institutions concentrate in the area of defence and research and prepare a human resource development pool which will help in making equi...

Rohit, you do understand the post. Yet you chose to pose your question. When history repeats itself and we fail to act, that could lead to our downfall. In the case of the Arjun, the IA chose to ignore a perfectly capable homegrown weapon system that performed very well in its own comparative trial...

Any specific reason why DRDO is persuing Phosphoric acid fuel cell instead of better alternatives?

Uttam wrote:Today there is an article in WSJ that says the range for Arihant is 435 miles, which is a tenth of China's 094 Jin. Any comments from experts here.

I think they (or you) are confusing it with the range of K-15 missiles which is 750kms (or 466 miles)

India-Provide-Army-Improved-Version-Cheetah-Helo In this article, it says "Work on Cheetal began after it was found in 2009 that India’s homemade Advanced Light Helicopter was unable to fly, as intended, at heights above 20,000 feet. The Cheetal can fly up to a height of 25,000 feet, meeting t...

A Sharma wrote:Russia arms Indian 'Sea giant' sub with multi-role cruise missiles

How does Sindhu-Rakshak translate to "Sea Giant"?

By that logic, this forum is "India Giant" forum

Is it not against SOP to leave the injured personnel on his own?

Not judging anybody just trying to know what is the standard practice in such cases?

AP and DefenseNews and other western media outlets are quoting "The weapons purchase agreement was signed by Indian and Russian officials here and include a $1.6 billion deal for India to purchase 42 Sukhoi SU-30 MKI fighter jets and a $1.3 billion contract for the delivery of 71 Mi-17 V5 milit...

48 Su-35 for $1.5 billion is simply not possible. That would mean $31.25 million per bird.

The cost of Su-35 is upwards for $65million.

Recently when DAC approved proposal to purchase 145 M777 guns, they: "also cleared a proposal to procure over 65 radars for the L-70 air defence guns which will be worth over Rs3,000 crore, Defence Ministry sources told PTI here." Any details about these radars and how effective these guns...

Since 18 Rafale will be bought in fly-away condition and rest assembled/manufactured in India - so how are the revenues shared?
I mean when HAL manufactures these jets in India, will they share revenue with Dassault?

U.S. Air Force to Get Five More C-17s US airforce has ordered 5 C-17s for $693 million firm-fixed price contract i.e. $138 million per aircraft. As per the contract with India: "The estimated cost of the procurement of the C-17 aircraft is US $ 4.116 billion. The cost at which the aircraft is ...

It is an excellent news that LCAs Ground attack weaponry is being cleared. Any news on the rest? 1. Air-to-Air 2. Anti-ship 3. Guns (if any)? 4. Range with drop tanks. 5. Decoys. Tejas undergoes weapons trials In a key step towards attaining final operational clearance (FOC) from the IAF, the Light...

suryag wrote:As if the current set of problems that the LCA program were not enough now this
LCA tejas parts go missing

INDIA's effort at building an indigenous TRAINER for the air force has hit numerous air pockets...

What's up with that??

DDM Mathematics at work. No DDM Mathematics. It looks like a case of typing error and need to do a better job of proofreading. Instead of For setting up a thermal power plant, the cost is around Rs 4 per MW, while for hydropower it is around Rs 6 per MW it should have been For setting up a thermal ...