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Here comes the hypersonic BrahMos-II (Mach 5-7)

This is a real gem of a video considering that the DRDO doesn't release these in public domain. Hats off to the guy who captured it during IMDS-2009 in Russia. Total orders for BrahMos till date is for 1500 pieces. Expect the number to rise when the Air Launched version becomes operational.

@gambit Thanks for the balanced post. You can be 100% certain! It was indeed fired without an explosive warhead. Again spot on! This was a rigged test but only one amongst the many tests that this missile had to undergo in order to get the IA’s thumbs up. btw the missile in the video...

Indian contribution in BrahMos is much more than what you guys think. First of all it is not a 50-50 JV. India holds 50.5% stake in BrahMos Aerospace that gives India full management control over the company. The CEO is Indian and all major decisions are taken by Indians. Coming to the...

I sincerely couldn’t understand your point here. Can you please elaborate? I never questioned the claims made in the report. In fact I said that their estimate of 70-90 warheads is fairly accurate. I merely wanted to point out that your logic to arrive at a figure of greater than 150 is...

Forget about the amount of fuel to number of warheads analogy given here. There is no basis for it. Let us stick to the official IAEA definition of ‘Significant Quantity (SQ)’ – From the same document the SQs for HEU and Pu are 25kg and 8kg respectively. Thus the total...

Fisichella gives Force India first pole There was no clear favourite for the Pole position in the qualifying session of the Belgian Grand Prix. The session was open for all drivers to cash on and the dominant duo from the Brawn GP had much to prove while the Red Bulls were...

Lockheed Martin flying in F-16s to Bangalore on Monday for IAF trials Fri, Aug 28 06:50 PM Bangalore, Aug 28 (IANS): Three F-16 advanced fighters of US aerospace major Lockheed Martin will soar into the skies Monday for the flight evaluation trials (FET) of the medium multi-role combat...

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Here are the real birds of the Indian Navy's Mig-29K 'Black Panther' Squadron Happy hunting!:tup:

No my friend, such a thinking is a fallacy. It is equivalent to saying that any one with access to marbles can make a Taj-Mahal. A computer is merely a device for computing. One must understand that a computer doesn’t think for itself. It merely carries out the operations programmed by the...

The outgoing chief of the Eastern Naval Command & soon to be Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Nirmal Verma, at the change of command parade in Visakhapatnam on Thursday, August 27, 2009. The new Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, Vice Admiral Anup Singh (right), along with...

"I only wish that our carriers are as capable as possible" That is the bottom line! We all hope for the same. End of discussion. Let s move on to some other topic now:D

PM inaugurates new campus for Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurating the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) in Thiruvananthapuram via Video Conferencing, in New Delhi on Tuesday. Functions were...

India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour India, once the colonial jewel of Britain's empire, has been accused of 'neo-colonialism' in Africa where its business people have joined a race with China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to buy up agricultural estates and take advantage...

Siege of Africa: China, India battle it out Prejudice dies hard. In 1972, Manubhai Madhvani was arrested in Uganda for being of Indian origin and jailed in a dungeon nicknamed the "Singapore Block". Dictator Idi Amin snatched all his wealth and expelled him from the country. To this...

he he just as I thought! Santhanam’s revelations are making the right noises in the right places at the right time. Way to go Santhanam saab!:tup:

That s besides the point. Using pure fission weapons now is like using gramophones in the age of ipods! Thermonuclear weapons have several advantages over the conventional pure fission weapons. Two stage thermonuclear weapons, like the one India tested, use fusion reactions involving isotopes...

This guy Santhanam really intrigues me you know! I have been following his articles and interviews very closely over the years and never once did I get the feeling that his stand was any different from that of the ABV govt's or the subsequent MMS govts’. Just to prove my point further, I did a...