Aircraft And Helicopters
LCA Navy Update
Bumped into Commodore (retd) C.D. Balaji, project director LCA (Navy) this morning at Def Expo's DRDO pavilion. He says that while the fore and aft duselage…
LCA Tejas
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Tejas Flies with Litening
Another update from ADA today (quoted): The Tejas LCA programme received a major fillip with the first successful flight test using the Litening pod which can…
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LCA Weaponisation? Duh!
It just occured to me that the Ministry of Defence may be going slightly overboard with publicity for its defence development programmes. It took me only…
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Tejas Fires Air-to-Air Missile
Just received this from the MoD: The Light Combat Aircraft ‘TEJAS’ program achieved the most significant milestone yet when it successfully test fired the Close Combat…
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HAL Tejas and the MRCA
Heard something quite interesting. If it’s true, it will gladden a lot of hearts, especially some on this blog. Rumour is out that HAL will be…
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Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder – An Analysis
By Mihir Shahfor LiveFistOn March 23 2007, two JF-17 “Thunder” fighters took to the skies for the first time in Pakistan as a part of the…
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JF-17s At Last
Two JF-17 Thunders flew on Pakistan Day on March 23 in Islamabad. The two fighters were flown in from Chengdu on March 12 for further test…
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First LCA Tejas Squadron at Sulur?
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi said on March 12 that the Air Force station at Sulur (Western Tamil Nadu) was being developed into what…
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Why isn’t the HAL Tejas part of the MRCA push?
A pertinent question if ever there was one. But like almost everything else in our country -- especially when it has to do with impossible sums…
