BY : LIVEMINT




India’s gas turbine research establishment will partner French company Snecma SA to build engines for Tejas, the country’s light combat aircraft, after efforts by the defence lab to develop an engine on its own faltered.
Snecma, a unit of Safran Group and earlier known as Société Nationale d’Étude et de Construction de Moteurs d’Aviation, which won a race against Russia’s Saturn NPO OAO to co-develop the Tejas engine, would take at least four years to build and certify the engine before it is put in the home-grown fighter. The technology would then be transferred to India’s military aeroplane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, or HAL, to make the engines locally.

BY : UPI

The Russian Air Force plans to hold live-fire drills next week for its strategic bombers, military officials said Friday.

The plane to be used in the drill is the Tu-22M3 Backfire-C, a supersonic bomber used mainly on the southern border in Central Asia and over the Black Sea. The drills will be held from Aug. 4 to Aug. 8, the Novosti news agency reported.

"During the exercises the crews will practice simulated bomber runs at testing grounds in the Novgorod and the Saratov regions," Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik said.

BY : ZEE NEWS


The BrahMos Aerospace has developed two more versions -- air and underwater -- of its supersonic missile BrahMos and is on course to develop hypersonic missiles that could cruise at speeds of 5-7 Mach, a top scientist has said.

Already four versions -- ship-to-ship, land-to-land, land-to-ship and ship-to-land -- had already been developed by the agency and the two new variants were now ready and in various stages of approval and test firing, BrahMos Aerospace Chief Executive and Managing Director A Sivathanu Pillai told reporters in Tiruchirappalli yesterday.