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India : India begins weaponisation of fighter aircraft |
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| Author: idrw team | 25 October 2007 | Views: 4062 |
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BY : IBNLIVE
India on Thursday began weaponisation of fighter aircraft with the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' successfully test-firing a close combat air-to-air missile off the Goa coast for the first time.
The LCA fired a Russian R-73 air-to-air missile during a technology demonstrator flight. It was the most significant milestone for the 'Tejas' programme.
The historic flight was done on Tejas prototype vehicle PV-1, piloted by the Chief Test Pilot of the National Flight Test Centre ADA, Gp Capt N Harish. The test-firing was done at 7 km altitude and 0.6 Mach.
The flight test was conducted from the mobile telemetry vehicle where all the aircraft, systems and weapon data were closely monitored.
Quick analysis of the data revealed that it was a ‘text book’ launch where the systems performance matched the predictions well. The historic event marks the beginning of weaponisation, which is the focus of the current initial operational clearance (IOC) phase of the programme, he said.
A Defence Ministry official said the much-delayed indigenous fighter is now almost ready for flight certification. The initial operational configuration for the fighter is expected between 2011-12 and the aircraft will be fully operational by 2013.
Air-to-air missile integration and testing, especially on a fly-by-wire aircraft, is a very complex task involving interfaces with aerodynamics, engine air intake, control laws, flight control system, avionics system, electrical and other general system of aircraft.
The Indian Air Force has already placed orders for 20 LCAs with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited with a provision for buying another 20 in the same contract.
VIDEO OF THE LCA FIRING R-73
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Tejas crosses milestone, test-fires combat missile Tejas prototype makes successful flightIndia's Tejas LCA makes maiden flight by nightProduction version of LCA 'Tejas' takes to skiesTejas moves one step closer to operationalisation |
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http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10678/print
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10678/print
how the traitor indian elites have colluded with anglosaxons to starve India.
The Food Story: Globalization Kills
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May 16, 2008 (LPAC)--Under the British Empire's policies of globalization and free trade over the last 3-4 decades, the poorest regions of the world have had their ability to produce food wiped out, while their dependence on foreign imports has skyrocketed. Under current conditions of global contraction of food production, and the shock front of food price hyperinflation, these regions are facing immediate starvation. "This is genocide, period," Lyndon LaRouche commented today.
According to World Bank statistics cited in the April 27 Washington Post, the percentage of total food supply now being imported by such targeted regions is:
REGION IMPORTED SELF-SUFFICIENCY Sub-Saharan Africa: 71% 29% North Africa: 68% 32% East Asia and Pacific: 53% 47% South Asia: 37% 63% Ibero-America: 27% 73%
This is deliberate. If you look, for example, at Sub-Saharan Africa's self-sufficiency in cereal production (the percentage of regional consumption which is produced within the region, i.e. not imported), it fell from 104% in 1970 to 83% in 1990. In East Asia, cereal self-sufficiency fell from 54% in 1970 to 35% in 1990. And in Ibero-America, it went from 107% to 88% over those same two decades.
Although the USDA stopped producing this useful statistical series past 1990, it's obvious that the trend has continued, and worsened. For example, from 1990 to 2008, cereal imports skyrocketed by 63% in Sub-Saharan Africa, by 47% in South Asia, and by 81% in Ibero-America.
This trend can also be seen by looking at specific cases such as Mexico, where per capita production of corn fell by 18% from 1980 to 2005, resulting in 26% of all Mexican corn consumption being imported. For beans, per capita production fell by 51% in the same period. And for rice, production plummeted by 71%--and now 69% of all rice is imported. Or Ghana, where poultry and eggs production was 95% domestic in the 1990s, now only 11%; and rice production was 80% domestic as recently as 1998, but now 80% is imported!
At least it was, until the hyperinflationary shock front hit world food prices. What happens to import-dependent countries when prices rise by 80% or 140%, as they did for rice and wheat, respectively, on the Chicago Board of Trade in April?
Genocide--unless Helga Zepp LaRouche's call for doubling food production and reorganizing the hyperinflationary global financial system is implemented, now."
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