Harry, Splendid as always. One suggestion: could you please make the article references ("Recommended for Further Reading") into clickable links since all of them are URLs? Also some of them are broken; e..g, http://users.senet.com.au/~wingman/awacs.html. Thanks. They are now links. I'm l...
Xpost from AI thread 1. Each time 120deg coverage. A/c turns around for 120deg from other side.1280 modules switched over from one side to the other as required with a switching mech 2. 360deg coverage possible, but restricted only by payload constraints – IAF asked for a lot of systems. Including...
Harry, good stuff. Any possibility of doing one of the Phalcon? So, the IAF is really interested in 5 more Phalcons? I don't know what the final Phalcon will look like? The IAF will probably order 5 more Phalcon (they should) and there will probably be a DDM article blaming the delay in DRDO's proj...
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=8477 [quote] DRDO project The 500 million USD project by DRDO (Defence Research Devolepment Organisation), which envisages mounting an Indian system on a Brazilian Embraer aircraft, has not found much favour with the IAF, as the jet does not have ...
I think we have enough info for a thread on this topic. For starters, I have updated my acig page with new artwork and pics, http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_533.shtml The past http://www.acig.org/artman/uploads/asp-h2176.jpg http://www.acig.org/artman/uploads/asp-h2175.jpg The future? (Im...
The AIM-120A has a max range of 50 km (Source: Bill Gunston's Aircraft Armament), with a typical launch range of ~35 km. There is no proof to indicate that the C-5 has any better range than that either. Damn the fanboys who edit wikipedia.
Not to mention this, chacko said... If i may report on Ajai Shhukla: Ajay Shukla is a failure. After 50 years + he has not been able to produce a President of India baby. First of all his baby had no tooth and hair when it was born. The baby used to cry every day. Almost 30 years after the baby coul...
Don't you just love these Shuklas and Aroors? On one hand, you have BR spending $5000 in order to bring the public, 1000s of pics, for FREE. Then you also have many other jingos spending a lot of money, suffering the torture of bureaucratic hurdles, security checks and delay, once again to bring loa...
I seem to have completely overlooked the Brahmos stand. Someone please get these questions answered, 1. Supersonic flight in the boundary layer (low altitude) generates a lot of drag and thermal load as well. How is this overcome? Does the brahmos use a lot of heatsinking? 2. Any use of composites i...