SOURCE :LIVEMINT Organizers of an event at the Mohammad V University in Moroccan capital Rabat where vice-president Hamid Ansari gave a speech on Wednesday displayed a map of India that included Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh within its borders. The map was displayed across the large auditorium, where vice-president Ansari delivered his speech on the diversity […]
SOURCE : PTI British special forces are blasting Bollywood music as a new psychological warfare weapon against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Libya on the advice of a Pakistani-born intelligence officer, it emerged today.They came up with the idea after the Pakistani-born intelligence officer with the British Army said that Bollywood tunes would annoy ISIS, […]
SOURCE : ECONOMIC TIMES Government today reacted sharply to scam-tainted Finmeccanica’s warning to reassess ongoing projects of supplying components to India, which has initiated process of blacklisting the Italian firm, saying no threat can scare it. “If you have any queries on this, theDefence Ministry , in appropriate manner, will respond to it. But let […]
From “don’t want or need it” to “yes, okay, we’ll take 68 of those“, it’s been a shaky flight for HAL’s HTT-40 basic propeller trainer platform. After some delays, the type took its first flight into Bengaluru’s skies on Tuesday morning with all systems go. HAL has been conspicuously silent about the debut flight, though Livefist can confirm it went without a hitch. Aiming to be fully capable and in service by 2018, the HTT-40 has had a bitter birthing, with the erstwhile IAF leadership practically calling for it to be destroyed before it could roll. HAL, which bankrolled the project alone — and not just without IAF money, but with IAF hostility — will now need to rapidly mature the aircraft and see it proven into academy service by 2018-19. The IAF, which currently operates 75 Pilatus PC-7 Mk.II has exercised options for 38 more. HAL will be banking big on an export market for light interdictors, and is known to already be in discussion with a handful of countries.
It isn’t fully clear why HAL has decided to go silent on the first flight. Livefist is in touch with the company for more details, so updates soon.
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From “don’t want or need it” to “yes, okay, we’ll take 68 of those“, it’s been a shaky flight for HAL’s HTT-40 basic propeller trainer platform. After some delays, the type took its first flight into Bengaluru’s skies on Tuesday morning with all systems go. HAL has been conspicuously silent about the debut flight, though Livefist can confirm it went without a hitch. Aiming to be fully capable and in service by 2018, the HTT-40 has had a bitter birthing, with the erstwhile IAF leadership practically calling for it to be destroyed before it could roll. HAL, which bankrolled the project alone — and not just without IAF money, but with IAF hostility — will now need to rapidly mature the aircraft and see it proven into academy service by 2018-19. The IAF, which currently operates 75 Pilatus PC-7 Mk.II has exercised options for 38 more. HAL will be banking big on an export market for light interdictors, and is known to already be in discussion with a handful of countries.
It isn’t fully clear why HAL has decided to go silent on the first flight. Livefist is in touch with the company for more details, so updates soon.
SOURCE : HINDUSTAN TIMES On April 27, 2015, when income tax officials descended on his residence in Greater Kailash, Sanjay Bhandari, the man at the centre of the controversy for allegedly holding Benami properties for Robert Vadra, damaged his SIM card to keep his “contacts” under wraps. Indeed it was his “contacts” that the government […]
SOURCE: SPUTNIK The second most populated country on the planet looks to make strides away from dependence on Western arms manufacturers in an unprecedented change to national policy.In a bid to upgrade rocket weapon systems for its fleet of helicopters, India announced that it will break from its state-run Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), which holds a monopoly on the country’s defense […]
SOURCE: The Maritime Executive. wo events set the stage for India-China strategic competition going underwater – one is the docking of China’s submarine in Sri Lanka’s Colombo port and the other is the loss of India’s submarine INS Sindhurakshak in a major fire incident.. These and subsequent events showed that China is signalling its strategic intentions in the […]
SOURCE: DAILY TIMES PK Secretary Defence Pro that India was not engaging in fair diplomacy in its relations duction Lt Gen (retd) Syed Muhammad Owais on Tuesday saidwith Pakistan. “India is playing intrigue diplomacy,” Gen Owais said in his keynote speech at a workshop on ‘National Security, Deterrence and Regional Stability in South Asia’ organised […]
SOURCE: UPI A sixth diesel-electric submarine for Russia’s Black Sea fleet was launched Tuesday at a shipyard in St. Petersburg.The Varshavyanka-class sub, named Kolpino, is an advanced version of what NATO designates as a Kilo-class submarine. Built under the Russian Navy’s Project 636.3, the submarine is between 229 and 242 feet long and has a submerged […]
SOURCE: ASIAN AGE Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto has said that his party wanted liberation of Kashmir from India.Addressing a rally in Mirpur district of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir on Monday evening, he said the PPP would never back off from its historic stance on the Kashmir dispute. “The struggle for the liberation of Kashmir […]
SOURCE: IAMWIRE While DGCA still hasn’t given clear guidelines for the development and usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or Drones, as we know them today), there are a few Indian startups working on their own to innovate this aerial hardware space. Sree Sai Aerotech Innovations Pvt. Ltd (SSAI) is a Chennai based company founded in […]
SOURCE: ENS Goods supplied to the Canteen Stores Department (CSD) for consumption by defence personnel and their families are increasing failing quality tests. The phenomenon has led the parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to express its concern in its latest report tabled earlier this month. The committee has found that huge sums are being collected […]
SOURCE: PTI Russia is waiting for India to identify the location of a new nuclear power plant where six power units of 1,200 mw each will be constructed under an Indo-Russian agreement, a senior Russian official said today. “We are waiting for the Indian party to identify the location for the new NPP. These six […]
SOURCE: ENS The passing out parade of the 130th course of NDA had a distinguishing feature-the breathtaking display of the Sarang Helicopter Aerobatic Team of the Indian Air Force, which mesmerised viewers with manoeuvres of the indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv. The Sarang team has evolved from the ALH Evaluation Flight (AEF) which was […]
SOURCE: SCROLL Sonaram Kisku, a 24-year-old Adivasi worker, was following his daily schedule on May 28 when he entered the deepest level of the 260 meters deep Turamdih Uranium Mine, six kms from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, at 7 am. By 11 am, he was buried with 10 other co-workers under the wet radioactive slurry that they […]
SOURCE: Dailymail The scrapping of a Rs 1,800 crore contract for 98 Black Shark torpedoes last week has thrown a spanner in the works of a critical strategic project – the construction of four ‘Arihant’ class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs).Three of the four SSBNs were meant to be equipped to fire Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes, […]
SOURCE: NEWDELHI TIMES In an important breakthrough in defence technology, India tested Ashwin interceptor missile on 15th May to be the fourth country in the world- after the US, Russia and Israel – to have successfully developed a Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system. India seeks to deploy a functional ‘iron dome’ BMD – a two-tiered missile […]
SOURCE: BLOOMBERG Global defense contractors are circling for business in Asia, with countries from Australia to Vietnam upgrading and adding everything from submarines to fighter jets as China expands its military reach. Defense budgets will keep rising, according to IHS Jane’s, which forecasts spending in the Asia-Pacific region will climb 23 percent to $533 billion annually […]
SOURCE: NEWSTARGET A burgeoning military-to-military relationship between the United States and India is emerging as China continues to build islands in the South China Sea and conduct aggressive patrolling using outsized sovereignty claims, and it is one that is likely to complicate Beijing’s plans for regional dominance. As reported by the War is Boring blog […]
