BY : PTI

The US defence department has evinced keen interest in an indigenous mine-protected vehicle that the army is set to induct for anti-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Aditya vehicle was developed with know-how from Isreal and will be inducted by the army by November to provide increased protection to troops engaged in counter-terrorism operations. The army has projected a requirement for 1,400 such vehicles and given the green signal to induct 300.

BY :foxnews

The Pentagon sold more than a thousand aircraft parts that could be used on F-14 fighter jets — a plane flown only by Iran — after announcing it had halted sales of such surplus, government investigators say.

In a report Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the Defense Department had improved security in its surplus program to prevent improper sales of sensitive items.

But investigators found that roughly 1,400 parts that could be used on F-14 "Tomcat" fighter jets were sold to the public in February. That came after the Pentagon announced it had suspended sales of all parts that could be used on the Tomcat while it reviewed security concerns.

BY : Pravda.Ru



In the end of July media sources reported that US Lockheed Martin held talks with the Command of the Indian Air Force and allegedly agreed to discuss the deliveries of the American 5th generational combat aircraft JSF (F-35). Now the naïve journalists and "independent" observers interpret possible consequences without knowing that these interpretations are far more important for the US than the consequences. The above talks and respective media campaign are nothing but a far sighted PR aimed at assisting the main goal – selling F-16I fighters in the expected Indian tender. Claimed sale of the 5th generation technologies is a downright lie.In

BY : Sudha Ramachandran (is an independent journalist/researcher based in Bangalore)

India's new listening post in Madagascar has reportedly begun operations. Under construction for more than a year, the monitoring station will provide India with electronic eyes and ears in the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Located in northern Madagascar, the monitoring station "was quietly made operational" in early July, according to a report in The Indian Express. It will be linked with similar facilities in Kochi
and Mumbai "to gather intelligence on foreign navies operating in the region", the report said. Mumbai and Kochi, which are on India's west coast, are headquarters of the Indian Navy's Western and Southern Commands, respectively.

BY : FLIGHT GLOBAL



India is unlikely to take delivery of the refitted Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov until 2011, three years after the due delivery date.

Russian shipbuilder Sevmash admitted on 1 August, that India was unlikely to take delivery of the refitted aircraft carrier, adding that director general Vladimir Pastukhov has been fired over the handling of the refit contract.

BY: Express News Service

“You learn science by keeping your eyes and ears open and looking around at this world. The real inspiration of science, at least to me, has been essentially the love of nature,” said Dr R R Navalgund, Director of Space Application Centre-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

While speaking on ‘Eye in the Sky’ at Gujarat Science City here on Tuesday, Navalgund said, “Circling just a few hundred kilometres above the earth, remote