Bharat Rakshak

.thanks Vick - much appreciated!

Jane's Defence Weekly has a cover story on the exercise and the performance of the Su's against the Armee de l air. The cover blurb seems to indicate that things went very well but I dont have access to the subscriber version of the story. *Indian Su-30K fighters display new capabilities ·India's de...

Originally posted by shiv: OK folks - I have now got a great 60 minute VCD of Aero India 2003 with a good mix of indoor displays, outdoor displays and 35 minutes of flying displays. I need to check out a few details about duplication and shipping before I can consider shipping it out to anyone. In ...

Originally posted by Rajit Ojha: Anurag Mig 29 BVR capabilties..check out this link..its a bit of a cold shower... http://www.codeonemagazine.com/archives/1995/articles/jul_95/july2a_95.html (sorry to go off topic) One significant point though Rajit, the German Fulcrums are the earlier MiG29A model...

Originally posted by Mohan Raju: Before anybody goes into raptures about the Ah 64 in the Gulf war, please remeber that it was operatig with virtually no opposition. Yes, and moreover, there was a good reason that the US was scared to death to introduce their Apaches into Kosovo -- they knew the Yu...

Well, beggars can't be choosers. Your point is answered in teh article itself - which you may have missed. In a resource-starved country like ours, the effort has been and must be to make the best use of available resources. Given this fact, India must look for a multi-utility/attack helicopter comb...

Originally posted by shiv: The Indian experience in the use of military helicopters http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3328/idr00014.htm It is a moot point whether India needs to consider a merger of attack and utility roles in one platform. But on the whole a merger of roles makes sense, being mo...

Thanks Shiv, I've been logging on every hour or two to see when you had something to post.

Before we indulge in Euphoria - the article referring to the Arrow sale was dated in January - the current article only refers to the Phalcon sale - I don't see anything about the Arrow in this article in Haaretz.