Indigenous warship technology for evading detection by enemy ships and submarines will be handed over to the Indian Navy in Vishakapatnam on Wednesday.
A. Sivathanu Pillai, chief controller (R&D) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), will hand over the products to Vice-Admiral D.S.P. Varma, chief of materials at the Naval Headquarters.
The Vishakapatnam-based Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) has developed the technologies.
India and Russia are rushing ahead to take on US-British Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 with the multi-role stealth fighter on the basis of Sukhoi Corporation's super secret PAK-FA project.
According international military think tanks, these two fighter jets from India-Russia joint development and US-British Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 will dominate the skies of the world in the next decade.
India says it is committed to improving military ties with Britain as the British army chief begins a tour of the country.
An Indian Defense Ministry statement said Tuesday British army chief Gen. Richard Dannatt began his six-day visit to India, aimed at improving military-to-military ties between the two countries.
Sri Lanka's military will need up to four months to replace aircraft lost in a suicide attack staged by Tamil Tiger rebels, a top official said yesterday. Eight aircraft, including a twin-turbo prop Beechcraft surveillance plane were destroyed when a crack Tamil Tiger suicide squad struck a key air base in Anuradhapura, 210 kilometres (130 miles) north of Colombo, on Monday. "We estimate our loss at about 15 million dollars," air force chief Roshan Goonetileke told reporters here.
"The Beechcraft alone costs about three to four million dollars, other ancillary equipment another six million dollars or so.... It should take about three to four months to replace our fleet," Goonetileke said.
The invaluable Secret Projects website carries frame grabs from an early-2000s Russian TV documentary, filmed at the vast TsAGI wind-tunnel complex at Zhukovsky. While wind-tunnel models are not equivalent to real hardware, and while known sensitive material wouldn't have been shown, the models are a real indication of Russian industry and government thinking.
First is a flying-wing aircraft, looking (from the inlet and exhaust shape) like a four-engine bomber.
The Indian Army is on a global hunt to buy unspecified numbers of micro UAVs to fly surveillance missions in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir and for anti-insurgency operations in the country’s northeast. Bids have been sent to companies that make the Bird Eye (Israel Aerospace Industries), FanTail (Singapore Technologies Aerospace), Raven (U.S. firm AeroVironment), Skylark (Israel’s Elbit) and Tracker (Europe’s EADS).
Airbus chief Thomas Enders is optimistic about the chance to supply the Indian Air Force with 120 Eurofighters, he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in Delhi Tuesday.
"The Eurofighter ranks among the most modern combat aircraft worldwide," said the former CEO of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) accompanying German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a visit to India.
TWO Russian strategic bombers flew close to a NATO summit on an "unusual" practice run yesterday, according to Norwegian military sources.
Lt-Col John Espen Lien said the flight - by two Tupolev 160 strategic bombers - followed a course near the Norwegian coast and between Britain and Denmark, before turning back some 120 miles north-west of the Netherlands, where NATO defence ministers were meeting in the city of Noordwijk.
Gripen International’s estimated $1 billion JAS fighter order from Thailand caused a political stir in Sweden. Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt has welcomed the sale, although he did concede that the country’s strict arms export laws prohibit the sale of arms equipment to “non-democracies.” Thailand has agreed in principle to buy six JAS Gripen C/Ds from Sweden. An extended agreement for six more aircraft would await the outcome of December national elections in Thailand, Chalit Pookpasuk, the Royal Thai Air Force’s air chief marshal, said at a news conference in Bangkok on Oct. 17.
France is no longer pushing Saudi Arabia to buy Rafale fighters now that the kingdom has purchased Typhoon jets from Britain, French Defence Minister Herve Morin said on Sunday during a visit to the Arab kingdom.
"We haven't discussed Rafale in Saudi Arabia. It's not a current issue," Morin told reporters in Jeddah after talks with Saudi leaders. "I think that after the Typhoon order it's not necessarily a priority."
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