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Slybird, Golden Hawk, Pushpak, Black kite and Indian eagle micro UAVs made by ADE-NAL are ready for production. Hopefully both MOD and MOH would provide large orders and induct these in numbers, IA and CMPF need these yesterday.. these eyes in the sky would lead to significant reduction in casualty...

oops what happened to the rhona dhona of those people who were crying about UAV's being done in the backyard etc and we are not making anything :) Busy taping old nokia smartphones (for the ruggedness factor and battery life) to paper planes and RC models and showing they can do it in less time tha...

As per Saurav Jha, the X-Band seeker being developed at RCI is for an anti shipping version of Nirbhay. It will probably be a Brahmos type multi variant seeker, both for land targets a la SCAN on Brahmos and naval targets. I believe the current seeker already has that capability. http://1.bp.blogsp...

Both are possible. Actually they did try to modify the engine of Akash from solid fueled to liquid fueled for longer range and finer control. But the last I heard about this was from the 2005 time frame. Most probably, it is for the long range supersonic cruise missile that DRDO is coming up with. ...

Its been six years. So how far has the semi cryo project advanced? HAL is setting up the manufacturing facility. BANGALORE, SEPTEMBER 24: The HAL-ISRO partnership will further get strengthened in the years to come. An Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing Facility (ICMF) will be set-up at HAL’s...

Paki US MRAP deal likely to win approval They've put forward the begging bowl for MRAPs..perhaps these are surplus stocks that the US was going to leave behind in Afghanistan. Wasn't India also supposed to be negotiating for the surplus MRAPs? Would've been useful in J&K.. There are about 5-6 d...

It appears that DRDL has called in a tender for supply of raw materials for a 350 mm dia Liquid Fueled Ram Jet missile combustor. That is about the same dia as that of Akash missile. http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/tenders/viewTender.jsp?paramMicro=7057 Either Akash-2 is liquid fueled, or we have a new ...

varunalh wrote:AK from Tarmak reporting that SP1 flew with a Hawk as chase a/c today. http://tarmak007.blogspot.in/
I did see a Tejas take off around 1.40PM following a unpainted Hawk. It could have been that

Lungi dance moment ?
http://i.minus.com/iUhoPoPMrgz1b.gif

Slybird, Golden Hawk, Pushpak, Black kite and Indian eagle micro UAVs made by ADE-NAL are ready for production. http://tarmak007.blogspot.in/2014/09/5-home-grown-mavs-ready-for-production.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Tarmak007--AnIndianAerospaceDefenceBlogWit...

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MoD's RFI for Reconnaissance and Surveillance Helicopters (RSH), new avatar of LUH procurement.

DRDO ready to deliver AEW&C to Air Force Hopefully more are ordered. http://www.sps-aviation.com/exclusive/?id=194&h=IAF-for-more-Embraer-Legacy-jets The Embraers have served well in IAF service and have proven to be a pleasant surprise for maintenance crew. The Embraers are complemented in...

I don't like this HAL move. On contrary, I like this HAL move of seizing initiative. They had to compete against Godrej, L&T, Tata for Saras and Rustom manufacturing contracts, which they won on the strength of their technical bids. They know that the private sector is constantly upgrading its ...

As per Saurav Jha, the X-Band seeker being developed at RCI is for an anti shipping version of Nirbhay.

Wonder if we will ever see HALE versions of Rustom-1 and Rustom-2 powered by the Laghu shakti engine. Although not a HALE uav, HAL has taken up development of a very high endurance UAV outside of the Rustom family. A potential candidate for Laghu Shakti ? http://www.spsmai.com/exclusive/?id=4&q...

Regarding EO package, ADE has called out tenders for version 2 of Mk-IV gimballed EO Package deployed on Nishant UAV. Now we know that Rustom-1 will borrow its EO package from Nishant, so that makes this new EO payload vital for both Panchi and Rustom-1.

indranilroy wrote: It is estimated to be 7-8 man years of work (to be finished in about 1 year). Let me know if you guys think that it can be done faster.

7-8 years ? My neighbourhood Pappu Paper Plane wallah can do it in 7-8 hours. Shame on SDRE dhotiwallahs. /sarcasm

Indigenously built spacecraft will soon attempt to enter Mars orbit; government mulls Ministry of Planetary Affairs http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/indigenously-built-spacecraft-will-soon-attempt-to-enter-mars-orbit-government-mulls-ministry-of-planetary-affairs/article...

RCase wrote:

Sweeter than honey fliend gives Bakistan $2M Paki Dollahs.

Taller than mountainj, deeper than seas,
Ye le bhikhmange twenty lakh rupeej

Austin wrote:^^Thakur they guard the Strategic Missile Forces Platform

Photos http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/567
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4cYXX2d6E

I still don't get the role it plays and how it executes it. Sounds like a recon platform to me.

jamwal wrote:The BPDM "Typhoon-M" counter sabotage vehicle based on BTR-82A chassis, in use by Russian Federation Strategic nuclear forces.

What is the role of a counter sabotage vehicle Jamwal ?

Dilbu wrote:MOM will fail onlee.

Dilbu's jinx zindabad

This is a pretty damn good production rate, which can be further scaled up.. Since you seem to have access to some data points, please enlighten me in understanding, if say, IA placed an order of 1000 guns, will the OFB able to scale up and finish off the run in say, 10 years? (@100 guns/year) Maki...

After navy, Airforce too is going for a dedicated satellite, GSAT-7A

https://twitter.com/SJha1618/status/513973063537283074

There is also the huge Police/Paramilitary market especially the Pistol/SMG category. The Home ministry recently bought a staggering 30,000+ guns(some report the figure at 60K+) from Beretta MX4 via direct import. The DRDO should stop wasting time with the Joint venture carbine (or whatever it is c...

VEM Technologies-built Laser Seeker for SAMHO What is that? The LAHAT replacement or the proposed DRDO man portable ATGM?? CLGM (Cannon Launched guided missile; for Arjun)/ SAMHO (semi active laser homing; ManPAT version) completely separate from man portable NAG. http://i.imgur.com/5X4L0A4.jpg Mig...

Welcome B Thakur! Thanks Karan. This two color seeker is a new beast apart from the ones above! Probably the IIR one for the PDV HK vehicle. More likely for a short ranged version of Astra to complement medium range and long range variants. You were right, Saurav Jha has confirmed that it is indeed...

6 years for 414 guns :shock: :shock: It will take time to ramp up the production rate, to train the manpower, to set up raw material lines, all the while doing it on a sustainable basis both for the OFB and it's vendors. First year (8 months & next 4 months): 6 guns and 12 guns @ 18 guns/year. ...

This two color seeker is a new beast apart from the ones above! Probably the IIR one for the PDV HK vehicle. More likely for a short ranged version of Astra to complement medium range and long range variants. What is the future of Nag then? Nag will remain in the IIR domain only and if everything g...