IAF's three Mi-26 heavy lift helicopters are currently grounded. Once they're overhauled, India will be first country to have both Russian Mi-26s & American Chinooks in operation.
Indians are asking how Bollywood dares to depict a fighter pilot in a bikini. The real question is why respect for a woman in a ‘serious’ profession diminishes the instant she wears a swimsuit.
Renaming imminent, it is learnt. IAF aims to boost intel, surveillance & reconnaissance capabilities via space assets, has started training officers to operate in space.
Defence Acquisition Council also gives its nod to upgrade Su-30 fighter fleet. Of the total Rs 2.23 lakh crore acquisitions, 98% will be sourced from domestic industries, says ministry.
I was stationed in Assam for the first 3 years. I enjoyed the greenery all around the city, boat rides in the gigantic Brahmaputra, and bowed my head at Kamakhya temple.
IAF equipped 28 fighter squadrons & 4 training units with MiG-21. 16 have been numberplated. Between 2015 & 2022, IAF phased out a squadron each year in March, with exception of 2021.
Air Chief Marshal (ACM), V.R. Chaudhari, said they were aware of China’s ‘radar platter’ – a large deployment of radars and extended range systems – which far outnumbers India’s.
At a time when IAF plans to replace even AN-32s, procurement of C295s is likely to come in handy because of load-carrying capacity & its ability to take off on shorter airstrip.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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