Russia and India have agreed to exchange knowledge in the training of mountain troops as part of an extensive military cooperation program, an aide to Russia's Ground Forces commander said on Tuesday.
India's Chief of Army Staff, General Deepak Kapoor, arrived in Moscow on Monday on a five-day visit to Russia. He met Tuesday with Russia's Ground Forces commander, Gen. Alexei Maslov, to discuss prospects for bilateral military cooperation.
An Indian-origin researcher at the University of Florida has revealed that a new wingless, saucer-shaped aircraft he has made is all set to take to the skies.
Instead of calling his aircraft a UFO, Subrata Roy calls it a “wingless electromagnetic air vehicle” (WEAV).
Roy insists that a successful flight of his aircraft may usher in a new age of aircraft design.
“If this works and we are able to fly it, this will be a quantum shift in how we see flying objects,” Discovery News quoted him as saying.
China has developed a new-generation supersonic trainer aircraft with state-of-the-art turbines and a full authority digital engine control.
The L15-03 trainer plane, developed by the Hongdu Aviation Industry Group based in Nanchang of Jiangxi Province, had a successful maiden flight last month, according to a press release from the conglomerate.
Zhang Hong, chief engineer for the L15-03 program, said in comparison with its prototype, the new plane shows improved engine function and reliability.
With the Indian armed forces facing a shortage of about 13,000 officers, the 30-lakh-strong National Cadet Corps (NCC) seems to be the best bet to fill up vacant seats in the military academies.
"While the armed forces training institutes find it difficult to attract new talent to fill up its seats and go under-subscribed, the NCC has been religiously sending its cadets and filling up its alloted quota of seats in all the military academies year in and year out," NCC Director General Lt Gen Prakash S Chaudhary told PTI.
Finding success in motivating its cadets to join the armed forces, the NCC has been
Comrade Karat perhaps believes he is being very crafty. He is being in fact too clever by half. To justify his party’s opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal he has spoken of the danger arising from any strategic alliance with the US. He has done this by invoking the cause of the Palestinian people. He said: “The strategic alliances with the US and Israel are interconnected. To support the Palestinian cause it is important to disentangle India from this matrix.” It is a popular line of argument. It is very clever as theory. It is quite stupid in practice. Theoretically what could be better than India unfettered by international alliances, morally strong, strategically weak, independent and totally non-aligned?
The world’s two most populous countries — and biggest emerging economies — have fought one war on land and are rapidly modernising their air, naval and nuclear forces in case of another.
Now India and China are taking their rivalry into orbit, with Delhi determined to catch up with Beijing in what is starting to look like an Asian version of the Cold War “space sace”.
General Deepak Kapoor, India’s Chief of Army Staff, has spoken publicly for the first time of his fears about China’s military space programme and the need for India to accelerate its own.
French defence and electronics major Thales hopes to double its India business from 250 million to 500 million euros in the next five years with increased sales in the military and civilian sectors.
"We have a long involvement with India and hope to increase our sales to double in next five years both in defence and civilian areas," Francois Dupont, Thales Managing Director & Country Corporate Director, told a group of visiting Indian journalists.
"Every year we are registering a growth of five percent to eight percent in business in India," he added.
"In 2000, our sales were 90 percent in the defence sector and 10 percent in civilian area. In 2006, our sales were 80 percent in the civilian sector due to the boom in the
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s floundering Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) programme just got a shot in the arm.
A prototype of the long-delayed Russian engine that will power the trainer has arrived here.
Developed by the Russian aero engine house NPO Saturn and christened AL-55I (I for Indian), the custom-made engine — which was to have arrived last November — has a higher thrust rating than the French-made Snecma Larzac 04H20 engine, currently flying the two IJT prototypes.
India's search for an advanced jet trainer (AJT) took an agonising two decades before the Hawk was finally purchased from UK major, BAE Systems. But the wait for an intermediate jet trainer (IJT) — which will replace the Indian Air Force's (IAF's) venerable Kiran trainer — could be half that time. Designed and built in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the Bangalore-headquartered Indian defence PSU, the sleek HJT-36 Sitara has used a combination of indigenous design and international purchases to vault from the drawing board to the run
India and France may soon join hands to make the latest variants of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) with a lethal hundred per cent kill probability, on the lines of the highly successful Indo-Russian Brahmos supersonic cruise missile.
The proposed joint venture, for which intense groundwork has been done by the missile industry officials from both countries, could take shape in a year's time.
The name of the new series of lethal co-produced missile has been proposed as 'Maitri' and it aims to fulfil the demand of the Army, Navy and Air Force in India for
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