Indian Air Force -- News Folder -- October 2002

[Rangudu]

88 Down In 4 yrs: Fernandes Grilled Over MiG-21 Crashes

[Ananth]

Border Build-up Honed Our Skills, Says Air Chief

[Victor]

India not taken final decision on British AJT.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_84930,0008.htm

[Guest]

Airforce day pics
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=india+force&c=news_photos

[member_201]

Company for Sukhois next year

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=10967

[Vick]

IAF, USAF to hold exercise at Agra

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_86462,0008.htm

[Vick]

Indian Air Force going in for largest ever recruitment drive

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_86175,0008.htm

[Rangudu]

Indian Air Force on a recruitment spree

[Rangudu]

From JED (The Journal of Electronic Defense) - No URL

India Upgrading Air Defenses

The Indian government finalized a plan to replace the aging Russian-made air-defense assets of the Indian defense forces. The program, worth $3 billion over the next three to five years, will provide a major boost to the country's air defenses, which are seriously affected due to lack of spares, said a senior official of the Indian Ministry of Defense (MoD). The plan is based on a MoD study that determined that many of the country's anti-missile defense systems are inoperable due to a lack of spares.

According to the MoD official, 30 squadrons of SA-3B Pechora and eight squadrons of SA-8B Osa-AKM surface-to-air missile systems in service with the Indian army are being upgraded. The range of the Pechoras is being increased to enable them work as effective anti-missile defense systems. India is also considering the integration of Russian S-300 air-defense systems with the indigenously developed Rajendra radar for the Akash and Trishul missiles. In a July 26 interview with JED, outgoing Defense Secretary Yogendra Narain confirmed that the Indian government had already finalized the purchase of two Green Pine radar systems from Israel. - Pulkit Singh

[Himanshu]

Experimenting with Monsoon
http://mod.nic.in/samachar/oct01-02/html/ch7.htm

Indian Air Force: A Retrospective
http://mod.nic.in/samachar/oct01-02/html/ch1.htm

Sting in Store
http://mod.nic.in/samachar/oct01-02/html/ch3.htm

[Rangudu]

Soon, IAF recruitment in your town, your language

[jarugn]

IAF-France in Air exercises

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021018-011841-7902r

Hard on the heels of the India's joint exercises with the U.S. Navy, India's air force has invited the first foreign air force to take part in a joint training exercise in India. A French fighter squadron is to arrive early next year for joint training at the Gwalior airbase, home to India's own wing of French-built Mirage 2000s. Most Indian warplanes are Russian MiGs, Ilyushins and Sukhois, but there are no plans to invite the Russian air force south of the Himalayas. The goodwill mission is part of a big French commercial push to sell more Mirages, and to persuade India to build another 150 under license.

[Arun_S]

Python 4, Derby For Indian Jaguars & Mirages

[P Chupunkar]

British article about Blair taking up the case with Vajpayee about the Hawk AJT in contradiction with his ethical foreign policy

[Shishir]

Cope India 2002
http://www2.hickam.af.mil/news/2002/2002219.htm

http://www2.hickam.af.mil/news/2002/2002220.htm

[Vick]

Prithvi-II missile inducted into IAF

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_88356,0006.htm

[Sridhar]

Air Force in Space Recce
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1021022/asp/frontpage/story_1313552.asp

[Himanshu]

MiG-21 fighter plane crashes
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_88550,0008.htm

[Jagan]

IAF to move Il-76 base to Nagpur : HindustanTimes.com
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_88529,0008.htm

[Guest]

India, US conduct joint air force exercises.

[putnanja]

Keep off blondes, IAF men warned

<img src="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/prin ... /front.jpg" alt="" />

[jarugn]

More on Indo-US air exercises

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021022-024427-3401r

[Guest]

Pictures of the Air-force exercise and the men and women involvedk. A must see!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2hun9.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2humw.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2htau.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2ht8v.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2ht8b.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2ht8c.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2hsyf.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021022/168/2hszb.html

[saint]

MIG-21 fighter plane crashes

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct23/imig.asp

[Himanshu]

Indo-US joint air combat exercises on the anvil

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26003426

[member_201]

US flyers take wing on tandoori chicken

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26093202

[Jagan]

Air International Report on the Su-30MKI
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/Temp/BRPic12.jpg

[Vick]

Decision on Advanced Jet Trainers for IAF soon

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=16207

[Rangudu]

AJT decision "shortly", AWACS within 3 years - GF

Link

[Guest]

Airforce day pics at Rediff.com
http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/oct/09sld1.htm

[Vick]

Disgraced IAF officer honoured with PVSM

http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/oct/29iaf.htm

[member_201]

Cupid's Arrow Formation by Surykirans Enthrall Spectators at Full Dress Rehearsal Air Force Day Parade 2002

http://mod.nic.in/pressreleases/content.asp?id=270