HAL’s partnership with Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation was formalised through an MoU signed in Moscow last year. This gave HAL manufacturing rights for the SJ-100.
India’s premier defence public sector undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, will have a new Chairman and Managing Director in May 2026. The selection process has...
India has paid a steep price for HAL’s unchecked dominance, evident in the MiG-era overhauls, the decades-long Tejas saga, and the troubled ALH programme.
Transfer of Technology (ToT) for jet engines was the main thrust of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's talks with his American counterpart Jack Sullivan in February.
From 2007-16, the family faced several charges — getting over $100 mn from Russian arms firms to Rolls-Royce making 'secret payments'. Bhanu Choudhrie was named in 2021 Pandora Papers case.
Cheers to the brave crew of IN 709 who kept their calm, overcame startle effect, fell back on an unscripted manoeuvre practised in the simulator, and ditched the helicopter.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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