Archive For January, 2019
On October 26, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) watched from the sidelines as Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) signed two contracts with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), which will condemn the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to a marginal presence in the IAF’s future fleet. The contracts signed were for two major […]
In a path breaking achievement, the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) has indigenously developed an “electronic warfare” (EW) system for the Indian Air Force’s (IAF’s) fleet of 60 MiG-29 fighters. Yet, when buying EW systems for the Tejas Mark 1A fighter that Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is developing, the aerospace firm signed a contract on October […]
The Uttam is an advanced active phased array radar (APAR) system being developed by Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) for the HAL Tejas and other combat aircraft of Indian Air Force. Development of Uttam started in 2008 and it was first unveiled at Aero India 2009. Uttam is slated to be a successor to […]
Confident with the success of Akash-1 missile system DRDO is now moving full steam ahead with the development of the highly advanced Akash-NG i.e. Akash-Next Generation. In May 2018, L&T’s ‘milestone ceremony’ gave us a glimpse of new Akash missile. Using that poster we created 3D images of Akash-NG SAM. Since we had to extrapolate […]
One of many modern features India’s Tejas Mk-1 fighter’s FOC variant will share with other Excellent Dogfighters like Eurofighter Typhoon is ALSR or ‘Automatic Low Speed Recovery‘ System. Auto low-speed recovery (ALSR) flight tests are part of the last leg of activities towards the Final Operational Clearance (FOC), likely to be accorded to the Tejas program, this […]
New York, U.S-based Blade, an aviation startup co-founded by former Sony and Warner Music Group executive Rob Wiesenthal and GroupMe co-founder Mr Steve Martocci, is starting its operations in India in March 2019, with its maiden flight taking off between Mumbai and Pune. Touted as “Uber-for-Helipcopters”, BLADE is a digitally-powered aviation startup that allows users to […]
As controversies over the Rafale refuse to die down, a delegation from the Indian Air Force is scheduled to head to France early next month to inspect two Dassault-made Mirage-2000 aircraft which will be France’s gift to India. while India has signed a deal with France for 36 Rafale jets which will be manufactured by […]