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COLUMN: The IAF Is Right To Marshal Its Full Muscle For The AMCA
There have been interesting and varied reactions to the idea that it will be better for the Indian Air Force (IAF) to put in all its…
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Aircraft And Helicopters
Never A More Urgent Time To Replace The IAF’s MiG-21s With India’s Tejas
90 minutes after Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman punched out of his MiG-21 Bison fighter near the Line of Control, to be captured…
Aircraft And Helicopters
A Test Pilot’s Unmissable View On Yesterday’s Mirage 2000 Tragedy
As the Indian Air Force comes to terms with yesterday's accident involving a freshly HAL-upgraded Mirage 2000, we bring you this early piece by a seasoned…
Aircraft And Helicopters
COLUMN: The Indian Air Force’s Tyranny Of Arithmetic
By Sanjay Badri-Maharaj A somewhat curious report emanating from the Indian Air Force, purportedly in response to a request from the Government of India to…
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Why Nirmala Sitharaman Is A Solid Choice For Defence Minister
Senior Fellow, Pahle India Foundation When Nirmala Sitharaman takes on strength as India's new defence minister today, one of the biggest, most daunting challenges on her…
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Thunderbird! Pakistan’s JF-17, Ten Years On
In early 2007, when the first production JF-17 “Thunder” fighter was unveiled to the Pakistani public, it failed to make much of an impression outside the…
Aircraft And Helicopters
The LCA Tejas Needs To See Squadron Service NOW
The LCA Tejas needs to see squadron service now. Goalposts, mission objectives, time-lines, costs and specifications have, over 32 years, melded into an amorphous, self-defeating paradox.…
Navy
FIRST HAND | How Shrimp Nearly Wrecked India’s First Brush With A Nuke Sub
As always, the submarine left harbour in the small hours, while the city slept. A huge, ominous shadow in the dark, she moved silently but for the faint…
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COLUMN | On Air Marshal Nur Khan (1923-2011)
Flt Lt with 4 Sqn, 1945 Much has been written about Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan, who recently passed away in Pakistan on the 15th of…
