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The Hindu says 7:17am on 24th Sept 2014

Journey to the Red Planet

At about 7:17 am on September 24, the orbiter's engine will commence the burn to take the spacecraft into orbit about Mars according to ISRO

Talk by Shri Avinash Chander, Secretary Department of Defence R&D, DG R&D and SA to RM Treasure Trove of info here - including PM Manmohan Singh himself issued the command to launch an ANGI III - testing the chain of command. fullto paisa vasool for 1 hour talk. [youtube]IaetX21oNWw&fea...

Talk by Shri Avinash Chander, Secretary Department of Defence R&D, DG R&D and SA to RM Treasure Trove of info here - including PM Manmohan Singh himself issued the command to launch an ANGI III - testing the chain of command. fullto paisa vasool for 1 hour talk. [youtube]IaetX21oNWw&fea...

Chandrayaan’s rover and the moon rocks from Salem villages At the lunar terrain facility of the Indian Space Research Organisation in Bangalore is a big spread of the “lunar” simulant soil. As commands erupt into life, a 17-kg rover, akin to the rover of Chandrayaan-2, revs up. It turns right, then...

INS KOLKATA ready for commissioning With technological hurdles crossed, further delay was caused by a tragic accident on March 7, when a naval officer died while testing the Kolkata’s fire fighting system. Now, with investigations into that accident almost concluded, the decks are clear for INS Kol...

Engine test & Low Speed taxi trials of Rustom 2

looks like a lot of work has been done!

see vid from 00:52

-deleted- next post has better edits of the photos

Government clears proposal for buying 15 Israeli-made UAVs New Delhi: Boosting surveillance capabilities of the Army along the borders with China and Pakistan, the government has cleared the procurement of around 15 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from Israel at a cost of around Rs. 1200 crore. A p...

Military chopper makes emergency landing The military helicopter that made an emergency landing at 24 Area Stadium in Yellendu of Khammam district on Thursday.– PHOTO: G.N. RAO A military helicopter equipped with modern gadgets including electronic security systems, made an emergency landing at 24 ...

INS Vikramaditya leaves Sevmash for Indian journey Less than a fortnight after it was formally commissioned in the Russian town of Severodvinsk, India's newest and largest ever warship – the INS Vikramaditya – has started on its long journey home. The aircraft carrier left the Sevmash shipyard on T...

Saw a huge UAV landing today in Begumpet AFB , Hyderabad. Looked like a IAI Searcher - used for anti maoist ops in Chhattisgarh or Odisha maybe ?

Auxiliary vessel Pradayak joins Navy The barge, built by Shalimar Works Ltd, Howrah, was delivered in seven months . Rear Admiral Madhusudanan hoped that he vessel would enable faster turnaround of ships at NSRY, Kochi . Pradayak is part of the fleet of auxiliaries with NSRY, Kochi, and is capable ...

^^ Thermal camera / FLIR output ?

Higher resolution picture of CB 8001 here -> http://aeropacific.blogspot.in/2012/12/ ... c-17a.html

CB-8001 looks an absolute beauty !! Looking foward to more hi-res - desktop wall paper wala pics ! Thanks VJ!!

Air Defence for NCR ready | Mumbai, Bangalore next? | Complete deliverable version missile's flight test soon http://tarmak007.blogspot.com/2012/01/air-defence-for-ncr-ready-mumbai.html Bangalore: Indian version of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) is ready. Under Phase-1 deployment, the National Cap...

I see it as the paperwork being put in place for a large A330 buy now that life cycle cost, spares and technology are being brought into eqn vs just L1 flyaway cost. I am sure we will order 6 initially and follow it up with another 12....khan has more tankers in a couple of middle east airbases tha...

Link to two min promo of Times Now 'Heroes' series -
Heroes: The defiant marines - talks about the IL -38 failure referred by Sum sir above.

http://www.timesnow.tv/Heroes-The-defia ... 381126.cms

C-130Js arriving today - NDTV http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/iafs-newly-acquired-us-transport-planes-to-arrive-today-76036 The first two of the six C-130 J Super Hercules transport Aircraft that the IAF has bought from the US will arrive at the Jamnagar base later today. India's new airlift fleet...

First C130J landing in India today ? As per http://chhindits.blogspot.com/2010/12/flash-c-130j-to-touch-jamnagar-on-31.html C-130J Super Hercules of the IAF to touch Indian soil on 31st Dec, 2010 , in Jamnagar, and will remain in Delhi till 9th Jan, 2011, and will fly to Bangalore on 9th Jan with na...

Can someone translate? At 1:50 onwards there is a graphic, which seems to show that the British Royal Navy was deployed in the Arabian sea off Bombay, and they scooted off when the Russians arrived off Srilanka. The USN then arrived into the bay of bengal. http://igorrgroup.blogspot.com/2009/12/197...

EYE BEE PHOR TEE YELL

More pics of the LCH with Sarang escorts..

http://tarmak007.blogspot.com/2010/05/l ... -just.html