Archive For January, 2019
India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-IV, with a strike range of 4,000 km, as part of a user trial by the Army. The strategic surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile was flight tested from launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Dr Abdul Kalam Island, earlier known as Wheeler Island, at about 8.35 […]
The Union Cabinet approved the ambitious Gaganyaan programme, which will send three Indian astronauts to space for up to seven days by 2022 at a cost of ₹10,000 crore. The project was first announced by Prime Minster Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech this year. As part of the programme, two unmanned flights and one manned flight […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — U.S. aerospace giant Boeing Company (Boeing) signed a five-year agreement with Britain-based ELG Carbon Fibre (ELG) to recycle aerospace waste materials from Boeing factories in the United States. Under the deal that is the first of its kind in the aerospace industry signed by the two companies, Boeing said […]
Experimental test pilots and test engineer from the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Bengaluru-based testing establishment ASTE flew India’s first military flight using blended biojet fuel, an An-32 transport aircraft, on ton. The project is a combined effort of IAF, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of […]
America’s top fighter jet manufacturer Lockheed has said it is open to helping India in the production of the indigenously-designed light combat aircraft Tejas. Currently, the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is producing around eight Tejas annually and the defence ministry wants it to increase the number to 18 planes per year. Tejas is a […]
Some in India have a negative reaction to being part of a “supply chain”—particularly when it involves defence production with foreigners. This reaction is often based on a visceral feeling that maintaining “strategic autonomy,” or the atavistic “non-alignment,” requires India to stand alone and never be a part of anyone else’s “chain”. Perhaps the very […]
The first of the two Indigenous Aircraft Carriers (IAC) is expected to be inducted into the Indian Navy in 2020 and will be based with the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) here, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the ENC, Vice-Admiral Mr Karambir Singh said. Addressing a press conference onboard the INS Sahyadri on the eve of Navy […]
MiG-29K, being the choice of aircraft for both the aircraft carriers, viz. INS Vikramaditya and an under-construction domestically-produced aircraft carrier, as well as two naval air stations on the East and West coast, is the mainstay of the Indian Navy’s air defence fleet. Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba announced that the issues related to […]
During the 1999 Kargil War, Indian Air Force High-Altitude Operations were hampered as the only combat helicopter, the Mi-35, couldn’t operate at extremely high altitudes. Due to the fact that Mi-25/35 or even armed Mi-17 could not be utilized to its full potential, India regarded the need for a proper designated High-Altitude Warfare Capable Attack […]
The indigenously built Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) which will replace the ageing Cheetah and Chetak helicopters being used by the armed forces is set to undertake high altitude cold weather trials in January 2019. The LU recently achieved a major milestone of flying at 6 km altitude during a trial test in Bengaluru which was […]