Bharat Rakshak

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LCA will be operated in large numbers, will see large improvements in capabilities in the Mk 1A version: Air Chief Raha @IAF_MCC

It feel good when IAF Chief say this.

Press Trust of India (PTI) via Times of India (ToI) reports an Agni V test is scheduled for tomorrow: India set to test-fire nuclear capable Agni-V Hemant Kumar Rout had also mentioned same dates. let's hope it hit target with precision. Agni - V : 26 Dec Agni - IV : 02 Jan http://www.newindianexpr...

Livefist tweets:

India's DRDO tests new smart anti-airfield weapon (SAAW), a precision-guided 120-kg 100-km range air delivered munition. https://t.co/jyk5dSYUD5

https://twitter.com/livefist/status/812601663672512513

Saurav Jha tweets: Nirbhay is not mean to have only a GLCM variant. An anti-shipping variant is also planned with an X-band seeker for the end game. GLCMs and ship-launched land strike variants with greater range than 1500 km are also envisioned. These longer ranged variants are supposed to be power...

EXCLUSIVE: DRDO's cruise missile project Nirbhay on verge of closure By Hemant Kumar Rout | Express News Service | Published: 23rd December 2016 01:52 AM | BHUBANESWAR: Once a pride for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India’s own cruise missile project Nirbhay is on the verge ...

Hemant Raut twittes:

As apprehended by @NewIndianXpress sub-sonic cruise #missile Nirbhay tested with faults in system failed during its 4th test. @DRDO_India

As per Tejas - LCA Facebook Admin:

SP3 has joined Flying Daggers Family.

SP4 is expected by mid Jan'17.

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Saurav Jha @twitter The Indian Navy wants to issue a tender for 57 new fighter aircraft, Most of the Mig-29K have already been delivered. The remaining few will be delivered by early next year. The order for the 16 S-70B naval multi-role helicopters is almost ready. 16 HAL Dhruvs + 8 HAL Chetaks are...

India Seeks Global Ties for Its Light Combat Aircraft Mark-1A Program By: Vivek Raghuvanshi, December 16, 2016 NEW DELHI — India has floated global bids to procure state-of-the-art active electronically scanned array radars and electronic warfare self-protection jammer pods for the forthcoming modi...

The tender in the form of Expression of Interest (EoI) was floated on Wednesday to five of the global aviation technology firms," a top HAL source said

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 002616.cms

When asked about the depleting strength of jets, he said besides Rafale, India is going to produce Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas in large numbers. " The effort is on to increase production lines. The more the number of aircraft we produce, the faster we ramp up the capacity to close the gap...

Saurav on twitter says:
The aim is to enhance OFB's Dhanush 155 mm howitzer production rate to 60 per year, not just to 36.

Revised summary - there is a lot of half facts here and there so making up the accurate picture is quite challenging; http://imgur.com/L0XcqKL.jpg Competition underway under 'Pipeline' tenders; http://i.imgur.com/h6ONmOE.jpg Sir, please pass on this to RM, he will need it :) In his recent interview...

Dhanush 2 will be 155mm/52 caliber with 42 km range. 'Work on version 2 of the Dhanush is already in progress. It is going to be an upgraded version from the current 155mm/45 caliber to 155mm/52 caliber. This is a parallel program that the OFB has undertaken on its own and will compete with the Adva...

Saurav Jha had twitted: 1. A second production line for the HAL Dhruv has been set up at Kanpur. 2. Current Production rate: Over 30 a year. Last year they delivered 35 or so. My 2 questions l, if anyone can clarify please. Is this 2nd production line is operational ? and how many of them are remain...

Saurav Jha ask an interesting question.

25% of the Rs 1259 crore to be spent on ramping up LCA production no.s from 8 to 16 per annum was supposed to come from the Navy. What now?

nits wrote:Gurus - As per above we are buying 2000 Ashok Leyland trucks for 12,000 CR thats 6 Crore for a Truck. Seems very high IMHO or this is on expected lines ?

Also, Towed 155 Dhanush cost 14Cr per gun as per wiki. Why 15000 Cr for 400 guns making it 37.5 Cr each ?

An engine or AESA upgrade wont do any good to Jags , Their design is for Low Level DPSA types and being a smaller platform it is limited in space and power requirement among other and are at their end of life , Replacing Jags 1:1 by Tejas or MKI or combination of both should be the way forward. ATM...

Do we have conformed news if Jag actually got 2052 AESA ?

If yes, it will be of great learning experience for HAL for doing this on Tejas Mk1-A.

http://english.mathrubhumi.com/mobile/news/india/no-combat-role-for-tapas-drdo-indian-air-force-tejas-1.1519345 By: By Our Defence Correspondent 20 Nov 2016, 03:27 pm Bengaluru: On a specific query on the Final Operational Clearance for Tejas, Aeronautical Development Agency head Cmde C D Balaji (Re...

A Sharma wrote:Tejas As Capable As Rafale Jet: Defence Minister

Did he mean to say Range is 450Km with 3.5 ton load ?

Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Defence 18-November-2016 18:55 IST Export of LCA Tejas The government proposes to export the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas to other countries. In this connection preliminary discussions have been held with a few friendly countries. Present...

And how do we make up numbers till the Tejas comes up,if it actually comes up. Very simple hai ji, just invest HALF of money which you are going to spend on F-16 OR Gripen on making new production lines for Tejas. F-16 OR Gripen will be quite costly compared to Tejas. And Tejas has arrived already....

X-posting from ABM thread. Confirmation that Indian BMD is already operational . FOC is mid 2017!!? seems like it can only happen after the contract with a phoren company for 2nd single engine fighter (new name for light fighter) has been signed or something like that. Is Air to Air refueling testi...

May be in principle Deal has been agreed with uncil already.. when they stopped F16s delivery to Pakistan.

With buying F16, India will stop Pakistan getting new fighters from US. With Gripen, Uncil will get back to their own business.

Possible ?