Folks a dumb question, Sri Balaji was commander or commodore in IN ?
BTW his fact file from tarmak. Very impressive credentials, no hi-fi IIT or MIT tag, may lord Balaji help him
http://tarmak007.blogspot.de/2015/07/cm ... ns-of.html
* Cmde Balaji (Retd) is born on 13 March 1957
* Holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering
* Commissioned into the Indian Navy in September 1978
* Served as the Air Engineer Officer of INAS 310 (Alize bomber) for 3 years embarking Aircraft Carrier Vikrant in 1981
* Worked with Sea Harriers in 1985
* Took Masters in Aerospace Engineering from IISc 1986-88
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Senior Instructor at Naval Institute of Aeronautical Technology (NIAT), Kochi, 1988-89These navy guys are crazy about self sufficiency(really love it), other arms would have sent their guys to train with the navy if they had a need to master something about naval technology and here we have a navy institute that teaches aeronautical technology. here is some info on the NIAT http://indiannavy.nic.in/about-indian-n ... technology they have already provided valuable design inputs for the N-LCA and paper->plane in 12 years doing it the first time
* Served as Lt. Cdr Chief Engineer officer onboard INS Beas 1989-91
* Station Air Engineer Officer at INS Hansa, Goa 1991-95
* As a Commander served INS Magar 1995-97
* Was attached to ALH project office in HAL 1998-2002
* Coordinated the naval team for landing of ALH on INS Ganga
* Deputed to ADA in 2002
* Wrote CCS paper on NLCA in 2002
* Appointed as Project Director Navy in 2005
* Left Navy in 2006 and joined ADA as a Naval Project Chief