The controversy over India's purchase of a globally capable aircraft carrier is finally laid to rest. Last week, when U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in New Delhi, the defense community in India was abuzz with rumors that India would be purchasing the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk (BusinessWeek.com, 2/26/08), which is slated for decommissioning this year. The Bush Administration tried to shoot down the speculation, growing across the blogosphere in both India and the U.S., that the Americans were preparing to take the unprecedented move of sending an aircraft
The UK has made a significant change to its weapons fit plans for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
The original UK intention was to clear four MBDA Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAMs) for internal carriage but this has been revised to include two internal and two external weapons instead.
The configuration change was agreed with the JSF Program Office in the United States late last year and was shown in public for the first time during the Singapore
The $1.5 billion contract signed by Russia's Sevmash Corp. to refit the aircraft carrier or air capable cruiser Admiral Gorshkov for the Indian navy hugely underestimated the true costs of modernization.
The plunge of the dollar and the subsequent surge in prices of equipment and skilled labor, as well as high requirements set by the Indian navy, made the project unrealizable.
The Admiral Gorshkov will have French, Israeli and Indian equipment, which will
Exercise BRAZEN CHARIOTS, a Fire and Manoeuvre, Army - Air Force, combat exercise will be conducted by one of India’s Desert Formations in the Desert Sector on 19 March. The exercise will be witnessed by a host of foreign dignitaries and Defence Attaches of friendly foreign countries.
The exercise has been set to project the Manoeuvre Warfare Doctrine which has since been promulgated in the Indian Armed Forces and is seen as a breakaway from the traditional attritionist approach of the Army. The Army is putting to test all of its latest weapon system acquisitions, to include the state of the art missile firing
A total of ten (10) Indian Air Force’s aircraft crashed during the calendar year 2007. In these accidents, three (3) Kiran, two (2) MiG-21, one (1) Mirage-2000, one (1) MiG-29 and one(1) Advance Light Helicopter were lost.
Seven pilots were killed in these accidents. There was no civilian casualty. However, there was loss to civil property worth Rs.41,700/- in the accident which took place on 24.1.2007.
A compensation of Rs. 41,700/- was paid in case of loss of the civil property in the
A ship-to-shore version of the supersonic Brahmos missile was successfully test fired in the Andamans today.
Defence Ministry announced that the missile with a range of more than 290 kms was launched from the deck of the Russian acquired missile destroyer INS Rajput and precisely hit a land target in one of the islands.
"The missile met all mission parameters and the test has established the sea to land
Mr. Eric Trappier Rafale International Managing Director has inaugurated the Rafale International office, located 80-88 Syngrou Avenue, 117 41 Athens in presence of H. E. Mr Christophe Farnaud, Ambassador of France in Greece, during a ceremony held at the French Embassy.
Rafale International three partners have been supplying aircraft to Greece since 1974, with the purchase of 40 Mirage F1 at first, followed by the signature in 1985 of the TALOS contract for the acquisition of 40 Mirage 2000.
The US offer to sell F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters to Indonesia has received mixed reactions from the defense, information and foreign affairs commission in the House of Representatives (DPR) with some of its members urging the government to be wary of the offer.
Some of them questioned the motives behind the offer as it came when Russia and China were trying to forge military ties with Indonesia.
"What are the motives behind the US offer? I wonder, because nothing in the world is free. The US made the offer not because they are generous," Andreas Pareira, one of the House commission members, said at a working meeting with Defense Minister
India’s newest private sector shipbuilder, Pipavav Shipyard Ltd, plans to build vessels for the country’s navy at its facility in Gujarat in western India, making it the second private firm in the country, after Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), to venture into this business. India will invest more than Rs50,000 crore over the next 15-20 years to build 24 submarines by 2025-30, spending $14-16 billion (Rs56,420- 64,480 crore).
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