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The performance made me happy... and then this made me sad: Abhishek Shrivastava Sir, ADA site we have the number of sorties of LCA's diffrent version, But no flight information for SP-1. Is it flying somewhere? January 10 at 4:07am Nikhil Singh SP 1 is not ADA's responsibility now That's my guess,i...

Even a quote from an "unnamed IAF official" will do.

Has anyone from IAF excluding NFTC commented anything positive about Tejas? “Tejas is a pilot’s delight” As a Bahrain official remarked immediately after the Tejas flight, “We had only heard about the Tejas earlier but the way it demonstrated its capability today, we are happy that its international...

Excellent performance from an "overweight" "underpowered" "obsolete" "in development for 3 decades" "three-legged cheetah" with "53 identified shortfalls" that "does not meet the IAF’s minimum air staff requirements (ASR)".

Karan M wrote:A senior officer said that the training of IAF pilots — the first batch comprises four of them — on the indigenous LCA has already started.

Thats the news I have been waiting to hear for a loooong time. Thank you!

Happy to hear about 80 @ Tejas Mark 1A. Any firm orders for LCA is good news. However, I still want to know what happened to SP-1. IAF Chief now says they don't have it! http://armingindia.com/Defense%20Space%20Agency%20Coming%20Up%20As%20An%20Interim%20Before%20Aerospace%20Command%20ACM%20Arup%20Ra...

Thanks raghuk. So its true - LCA production is not going to move forward until probably FOC is achieved in mid 2016 and design is frozen by IAF/ADA. And FOC is delayed due to non-supply of new quartz radome and bolt on inflight refueling probe by Cobham. HAL had previously stated that they planned t...

Cosmo_R are you serious? Let me guess you got your JSF price from the JSF propaganda site here: https://www.f35.com/about/fast-facts/cost ? That price is LM's cost to manufacture the aircraft for the USAF without engines, weapons, and other support costs. It also does not factor in development costs...

I am happy that SP-1 SP-2 LSP-7 and LSP-8 are at least going to be used by ASTE, even if they are not going to be inducted by IAF. I did not know that, and don't remember seeing any news item mentioning it. Would love to see some pics of SP-1 or LSP-7 in ASTE service. I still think that for getting ...

http://www.oneindia.com/india/we-have-no-doubts-on-tejas-capabilities-iaf-chief-1659076.html "The first two series production aircraft (SP-1 and SP-2) have some slight variations and from SP-3 onwards we will have them entering into the Squadron. The first squadron will consist of aircraft from...

What is the point building SP-2? What is IAF doing with SP-1 or LSP-1 to LSP-7? Nothing. IAF doesn't plan to touch LCA until FOC is reached and all aircraft are upgraded to FOC standards. Might as well concentrate all efforts on achieving FOC rather than building any more LSP or SP aircraft.

The manual labour is already being done in western countries to separate plastics for recycling, organics for composting and trash for land-fills. And it's not about being cheaper than oil, but to be able to do something with trash other than putting it in a landfill. It has become a serious industr...

Why the hate? This technology if proven in India has major export potential to western countries that already do the manual labour of collecting and separating plastic from trash for recycling purposes. In fact it has export potential to nearly every country in the world that's currently trying to g...

Does anyone know what the IAF is doing with the Tejas SP-1 fighter? Is it just sitting in a hangar?

But why should it matter what DDM says? Shouldn't MoD, IAF, ADA and HAL discuss with each other the progress (or lack of) that LCA is making rather than reading about it in the press? Even from the link above, we have this quote: "We read it [IAF Chief's comments] in the newspapers and it has l...

During Aero India, I had read these 2 articles: http://www.oneindia.com/india/we-have-no-doubts-on-tejas-capabilities-iaf-chief-1659076.html "The first two series production aircraft (SP-1 and SP-2) have some slight variations and from SP-3 onwards we will have them entering into the Squadron. ...

The Indian Navy has a Directorate of Indigenisation! Just read below and see how much more forward thinking the Navy is from the IAF! http://indiannavy.nic.in/naval-commands/directorate-indigenisation Directorate of Indigenisation INDIGENOUS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – A GUIDE Product development is a hig...

Why indirect pressure? Why not direct pressure? IAF must be forced to order 300 Tejas MK2. IAF doesn't trust the Project Management of HAL/ADA? They should contribute their own PM folks. IAF doesn't trust the Engineering of HAL/ADA? They should contribute their own Engineering folks. IAF doesn't hav...

For those people putting the blame on HAL for not ramping up LCA production:

Number of confirmed orders for Tejas MK1 = 40 (20 IOC-2 + 20 FOC)
Number of confirmed orders for Tejas MK2 = 0

Why would HAL invest money to ramp up production to 16 a year and then be idle after 3 years?

We've heard these vague promises before. AKA also said that the 14 remaining squadrons of Mig-21/Mig-27 would be replaced by LCA. Yet, here we are. Keeping in mind that all the previous Mig-21/Mig-27 squadrons have been converted to Su-30 MKI, the talk of IAF needing a "lighter type of single-e...

@Pratyush - Tejas MK2 will have to compete for orders against FGFA and you know which aircraft the IAF will choose. It's clear what the IAF wants, and it's not the LCA, or the AMCA for that matter. @rohitvats - I am not abusing the IAF - I am just stating the obvious. I found BRF in 2001 when search...

If the news of 144 Rafale (36 flyaway + 108 HAL built) is true, then IAF plans to replace the 14 squadrons of Mig-21/Mig-27 with 8 squadrons of Rafale + 6 squadrons of LCA (40 MK1 + 80 MK2). There will be no chance of any further orders for Tejas as the 6 squadrons of Jaguar and the 6 squadrons of M...

At what point and hours did marcos hand over the ops to NSG? What did marcos accomplish in this op. AdityaG, please see the video of the MARCOS press conference I posted in the mil thread. GeorgeJ, thanks, but what confused me was that media reports that there were just 25 odd MARCOS involved. Also...

Entire MARCOS news conference:

I'm all confused, can someone please confirm who's who? Blue camo with blue beret and rifle - RAF? Police/Plain clothes with BPJ and pistol/rifle/AK47 - ATS? Camo with INSAS rifle - Army jawans? Camo with blue BPJ and Dragunov SVD - Army commando? Black with helmets, BPJ, and MP5 / SG 550 - NSG? Bla...

The heavy weapon in the 2 pics below looks like a russian AGS17 30mm grenade launcher.

Can anyone identify the weapon being carried by the guy on the right in these two pics?



Looks like a teargas/grenade launcher.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/1 ... ttack.html
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Chandrayaan-1 updates:

LASER Instrument on Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Turned ON
Images From Chandrayaan-1

Interesting article on the lack of Russia's preparedness. Russian military officials, in writings there that are catching U.S. analysts' attention, are concluding that Russia's offensive into Georgia was morally justified but poorly organized and executed in the opening phases due to surprise. U.S. ...

HAL had teamed up with IAI for avionics, marketing and product support for Dhruv. Elbit is a completely different company, and probably competed by offering to sell some more upgraded SA-330 Pumas that Ecuador had previously bought from them. I think they are manufactured in Romania by Elbit in coll...

The same reason that M311, M346, Mig-AT, Yak-130, T-50 and Javelin are on display - because the jet trainer market is very hot right now! A lot of airforces have recently purchased modern fighters and are looking for modern trainers. We should be thankful that HAL is actually trying to market it's p...

The Dhruv did break a record too! http://www.hal-india.com/cheetal.asp While the Cheetal was executing its epoch making landing – one Indian Air Force Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) ‘Dhruv’(J 4041) set another record by flying at a density altitude of 27,000 feet or 8230 metres above mean sea level...