Bharat Rakshak

I send a e-mail to the good admiral saying that India needed to take its baby steps in aviation before ever producing a stealth aircraft (can't expect an infant to pole vault); that India with its billion people should be in a better position to make its own weapons systems compared to tiny Israel (...

Guru, methinks the afterburner stuff's just "Poetic License". <P>Now to get them journos back to earth, and get them to understand the long hours of hard work needed for the LCA into IAF service.

Now is the time to create a aerospace company taking elements of of the various disparate organizations (DRDO,ADA, NAL, etc etc) that contributed to the LCA development. The next step would be to privatize that company. Such a company would be the anchor for an indigenous defense industry, able to c...

Welcome Tom, and thanks for starting a really interesting debate. I do not claim to know the relative merits of various airforces and their pilots by I do know that Indians by nature are not boasters and self-promoters - quite the opposite in fact.<P>I look at results and not the PR hype, and by thi...

Kaushal,<P>"This after 160,000 Indian troops gave their life for the Allied War Effort. Talk about being ungrateful."<P>I take it you are referring to WWII? Does anyone have figures for how many Indians died in WWI and WWII, and how that compares to the casualties from other British coloni...