India's long-term defence and strategic planning continues to flounder, with no concrete measures yet in place to build military capabilities in a systematic manner in tune with the country's growing geo-political aspirations. Instead, in the absence of integrated planning, what we have is the continuing
When the contract for the 66 Hawks was signed in 2004, as part of the contract 75 pilots of Iaf will be trained by BAe and RAF before Iaf had all the facility for the Hawk Training system in Bidar (Karnataka), Each pilot of Iaf spends 11 months at Raf Valley in Wales and trained with No 208 Squadron “Black Hawks “, each pilot spends
Enhancing efficiency of training at the Indian Air Force Station at Tambaram would be his top priority, said Air Commodore T K Varma, who assumed charge on Monday as Air Officer Commanding (AOC) of the station.
"The IAF Tambaram is a premiere training institute and I will make all efforts to maintain the status," he told reporters after taking over from Air Commodore M S Ahluwalia.
The Army is fielding the indigenous Arjun tanks for the first time in simulated war games in the deserts of Rajasthan beginning on Sunday.
A sub-unit'' of about a dozen Arjun tanks has been fielded along with Russian-origin tanks for the exercise codenamed 'Ashwamedha' to test new equipment and concepts in searing heat, said anonymous Army sources.
Ahead of talks between India and the U.S. here next week on the civil nuclear issue, a senior American official has sought to put the onus on New Delhi, saying it should "move quickly" to help complete a bilateral agreement to make the initiative a reality.
Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns also said the two nations must take "two more giant steps" to achieve a global partnership increasing cooperation in fighting terrorism and creating a "stronger military partnership."
India would be conducting another round of Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) in two years to consolidate its position among a select group of countries which have capabilities not only to launch a satellite into a specified space orbit but also to recover it undamaged after the completion of its mission.
This was disclosed at a news conference here on Saturday by the Director of the Vikram
Keep a lookout for the warships. After an amphibious warship of the US Navy visited Mumbai recently, a French command and supply warship ‘Var’ is expected on Monday.
The Mathura-based 1 Corps, one of the Indian Army's three strike Corps, is all set to roll out the most high-tech war games ever conducted by the Indian Army, through an exercise codenamed 'Ashwamedh.' For the first time ever, the Army will be exercising in an intensive electronic environment that will test out its 'network centric' doctrines and equipment.
The 'core-alone' configuration of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) seems to have attracted immediate international attention, with an Israeli observation satellite, Polaris, heading for an early launch in August this year. The satellite, weighing 300 kg, can take pictures of the earth through cloud and rain, 24 hours of the day.
For quite some time, the Indian Air Force has been seething with suppressed anger against the tendency of civil aviation authorities to blame it for everything, from near-misses to being miserly about sharing airspace.
But now it has boiled over. An upset IAF HQ dashed off a strongly-worded letter to the civil aviation ministry on
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