Bharat Rakshak

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http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/coun ... kistan.htm

Information about aircraft crashes.

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Kedar's Blog if not seen already.

http://www.kedark.com/Kedar_Karmarkar_A ... /Blog.html

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Anyone had a looksie at Chindits for the Arihant photos?

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‘India can manufacture only 8 Light Combat Aircraft a year’ Armed with air to air, air to ground missiles and a bomb carrying a 1,000 pound payload , the LCA, which clocked in excess of 1,350 kmph during a trial off Goa Tuesday, is expected to cost Rs.150 crore per aircraft. approx $32~33M per LCA!...

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Induction of upgraded MiG-29 hit by delay at Russian end The Indian Air Force’s plans to induct upgraded MiG-29 by March next year has been hit due to delay at the Russian end with the first lot of six aircraft likely to come in only by early 2011. “Originally, the upgraded MiG-29s were to join the...

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Shiv Aroor's data looks to be entirely based on the Tech Focus issue posted earlier by A Sharma, including the photos and the summary.

Interestingly, the Tech Focus pegs the Marine Kaveri output at 15MW instead of 12MW.

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I should have clarified. The single engined one.

http://www.drdo.com/dpi/SAsiaDefnStraRev_.pdf

The last page has the photo.

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Saw a Rustom fly couple of times near the HAL airport area. Had a clear view of it doing a nice circle and landing on the runway. Did it atleast couple of times in about 10 minutes space. Looked pretty good to this layman's eyes

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Not sure how Vinayak got the information but not so good news for LCA because of the delay for LSP-3 and the MMR. Tejas IOC gets delayed again Tejas IOC gets delayed again BY : IDRW TEAM India’s Leading Newspaper “The Hindu” recently reported that the, Initial operational clearance (IOC) of Tejas ma...

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Didn't know where else to put it.

US riders keeping Bhel out of growing gas turbine markets

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We are still paying loyalties to the russians for using their base technology.As ramjets themself are costlier and royalties on top of that makes them much costlier.And you will never find the electronics on brahmos on any other system in this whole world.So we are having a high end trade-off betwe...

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This might have been posted before, but I just wanted a placeholder for future references. Who Was That Special Passenger? The truth behind Kandahar UK couple ask media to report carefully Barkha threatens to sue this guy NSG says media got in the way, wants guidelines While Barkha says otherwise On...

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On the news I heard them say that this will replace the Prithvi. 250 - 350 km vs 600 km ??? Doesn't make sense. Some explanation required.

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Arun_S, thanks for the explanation, it made lot of sense to me. The way I read it is that it is now upto US (as in we Indians) to do what is necessary to get where we want to be and rightfully belongs to us. The timeline of 20 to 25 years is based on the assumption that WE use this oppurtunity, even...

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In the meantime ........ Statement Regarding Media Coverage of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter FOR RELEASE Thursday September 25, 2008 Andrew Hoehn, Director of RAND Project Air Force, made the following statement today: “Recently, articles have appeared in the Australian press with assertions regarding a...

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War game argues that USAF fleet could be outmatched by Chinese By Stephen Trimble Rand's 90-slide briefing presented in August argues that the US Air Force's fifth-generation fighter fleet could be outmatched by hordes of lesser-skilled Chinese Sukhoi Su-27 pilots in a 2020 battle over the Taiwan S...

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Leaked Rand analysis questions USAF fighter strategy, sparks inadvertent F-35 crisis By Stephen Trimble A leaked briefing about a recent Taiwan Straits war game has developed rapidly into an international crisis for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme. The leaked Rand analysis obtained by Fligh...

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Britain considers £9bn JSF project pullout BRITAIN is considering pulling out of a £9 billion project with America to produce the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft, intended to fly off the Royal Navy’s forthcoming aircraft carriers. The move is part of an increasingly desperate attempt to plu...

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India, France agree to bolster defence cooperation Paris, September 30: India and France on Tuesday agreed to bolster bilateral defence ties by working on joint development of quick reaction short range surface-to-air missiles (SRSAM) and concluding a crucial deal on upgradation of IAF’s frontline ...

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He is saying Decompression, I think he means Decrypting doesn't he? Those words mean two different thing to me.

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Israeli Awacs to miss deadline: Rajat Pandit The delivery of the much-awaited three Israeli Phalcon Awacs (airborne warning and control systems), which will be major force-multipliers for IAF, has been delayed once again. Defence ministry sources said the first of the three Awacs, initially slated ...

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amit wrote:
negi wrote:Fwiw.. Amit it's still there in archived threads.
Thanks boss,

I'll look it up there.

Can anyone help me find it? I tried but couldn't.

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Article was written by Admiral Raja Menon, a retired submarine branch officer, who is known for his incisive analyses of defence and security issues. Written before we got the NSG exemption. Not sure if this article was posted earlier. Apologies if so. No Ordinary Deal By Raja Menon The nuclear deal...

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One more link...

Pictured: The dramatic scene after a 'Red Arrows' Hawk jet crash-landed and smashed into RAF base

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MMS must be calling Bush and singing...

"Accha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka, yaar ne hi loot liya ghar yaar ka"

Bush says N-supply not legally binding; India worried

NSG not to sell sensitive technologies to India: Report

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Russia to provide after sale service to Indian AEW planes GELENDZHIK (South Russia), September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, said on Monday it had contracted a number of Russian companies to provide India's A-50 AEW aircraft with after sale services. "Rosobor...

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Whatever happened to MMS promise to enact changes to Indian Laws to protect ourselves from getting rolled over? Its high time someone brings that into the forefront in lieu of the letter. If we pass the amendments to our Atomic Act (was that the correct name???), it should send a clear message to US...

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I am all for the above with one condition, i.e every major deal, especially if the deal goes to such consortiums, should have a 50% offset and not just 30% offset, if the said technology is not a JV but rather a tech transfer. When almost all of it is happening in India than where is the question o...

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I am all for the above with one condition, i.e every major deal, especially if the deal goes to such consortiums, should have a 50% offset and not just 30% offset, if the said technology is not a JV but rather a tech transfer.

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I was not so worried about whether US will continue supporting India if we did test after the deal. I always assumed the worst from them. But now the question is how does that scenario spin for our "Plan B" aka NSG (France and Russia) if we got a clean waiver and if we didn't get a clean w...

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Sikorsky’s X2 TECHNOLOGY™ Demonstrator Achieves First Flight Among the innovative technologies the X2 TECHNOLOGY Demonstrator employs are: * Fly-by-wire flight controls * Counter-rotating, all-composite rigid rotor blades * Hub drag reduction * Active vibration control * Integrated auxiliary propul...

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Here's some food for thought for your dicussion :D IAF buys new fix for bombed runways The Israel Air Force has purchased a unique material that can be laid on bombed-out runways within minutes to enable fighter jets to take off with barely any delay, defense officials revealed Tuesday. Until now, t...

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Pune plans tech upgrade for soldiers City-based Armament research and development establishment (ARDE) is developing technology which it hopes will turn the future soldier into a “system in himself”. From computer-monitored body suits conveying details of the soldier’s health to the nearest post to...

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Upgrade for older Mirages. SA aerospace firm takes offer to upgrade old jet fighters global By: Keith Campbell Published: 15 Aug 08 - 0:00 South Africa's Midrand-based private-sector defence company Advanced Technologies & Engineering (ATE), which is an integrator of mission systems, has reveale...

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Jagan wrote:guys , please share some more info on the book - anythign new in terms of info?

In the book it said that one of the ToT item was Single Crystal Blade tech to build the engine in India. I am guessing that it never happened. Anyone got any more info on this?

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IAF to add teeth with Israeli missile system NEW DELHI: The long-delayed IAF plans to plug gaps in its air defence capabilities are finally making some headway now, with the government giving the go-ahead for the procurement of SpyDer low-level quick-reaction missile systems from Israel. Sources sa...

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I don't think this has been posetd yet. New aircraft for IAF pilot training New aircraft for IAF pilot training By Ravi Sharma Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 The Hindu Qualitative requirements finalised for HPT-32 replacement Will have an ejection seat To be acquired along with a simulator BANGALORE: Havin...

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JTull wrote:The pictures are fantastic!

And then some

Meanwhile while I was at it bought another book on the history of IJT. Yet to read it.

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I am posting some of the comments from Shiv's blog regarding some of the Sen Gupta's lies. I thought they were telling comments which needed to be posted. The Truth about the Rohini radar (from Prasun K Sengupta) Ravi said... Hi Shiv, Prasun has been barking up the wrong tree for a long while and hi...

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China eyeing base in Bay of Bengal?

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