Indigenous Equipment
The Expert Panel on DRDO
I'd reported on January 19 in The Indian Express on the new "independent and external" panel of experts that has been ordered by the government to…
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DRDO
PGM (Purpose Gone Missing)
In the context of Programme Air Defence (PAD) and Advanced Air Defence (AAD), and all the chatter about Prithvi (most of it incorrect!), I thought I'd…
Aircraft And Helicopters
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…
Army
General Sham(e)
Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but the…
Aircraft And Helicopters
The Needless IJT Incident of February 8
If reports suggesting that the accident involving an indigenous Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) on February 8 at Yelahanka were caused by the pilot’s carelessness – he…
Indigenous Equipment
Not just high-altitude chikki
Will an empowered and independent committee mandated with dissecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) be able to cure half a century’s legacy of mismanagement…
Air Force
Enter chopper pilot as air chief
God is not a fighter pilot. That is the punch line to an old joke in the Indian Air Force. That one line is today superbly…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Test-flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet
As I crouched, foetus-like, on a sustained 7.5-G loop in a fighter at 9,000 feet, I knew the best was yet to come. My US Navy…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Farewell, Foxbat
April 16, 2006The air force station at Bareilly is like any other airbase in the country. Clean, well maintained, neatly pruned hedges, shining insignias and signs…
Army
Travels in Bofors Country
June 2005I’M sure guns are the last thing on most people’s minds when they drive into Karlskoga. This tiny town, three hours west of Stockholm, is…
Air Force
The Indo-Pak Air War of 1965
I just heard that BharatRakshak's PVS Jagan Mohan has received the Chief of Air Staff's Commendation for his contribution to documenting IAF history, and particularly his…
Army
Raw Silk Route – The Opening of Nathu La
June 2006 Rows of prefab warehouses under corrugated iron sheets at Sherathang, 7 km shy of Nathula. A highway still in the making. A wary state…