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India has best technical education in world: Hillary Mumbai, July 18, 2009 Commending the technical education in India as the "best in the world", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday suggested her country and India should work together in the field to help bridge the gap...

HAL looking for global partner to design trainer aircraft Monday, Jul 20, 2009 Ravi Sharma BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has decided to rope in an international partner for the design and development of the much needed ab initio turbo trainer for the Indian Air Force...

Space agreement to help launch ‘India-U.S. 3.0’ Monday, Jul 20, 2009 New Delhi: Despite last-minute wrinkles, India is still looking to sign an end-use monitoring agreement to ease the sale of U.S. military hardware during the visit here of Hillary Clinton, but the highlight of Monday’s...

Final price tag of Gorshkov to be close to $.2.9 billion Monday, Jul 20, 2009 K.V. Prasad NEW DELHI: India is all set to finalise the price tag of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov), which would be closer to the revised demand made by Russia at $2.9 billion...

You call that help? NASA was ‘selling’ sounding rockets to several countries when India bought them from the US. It was never a restricted technology at that time. It was merely a commercial deal where ready to use sounding rockets were sold, without the technology! As for satellite...

The word ‘procured’ in the article is the reporter’s own concoction! He/she does not quote the defence minister there. So, your logic is flawed fundamentally. Here, I have managed to get my hands on the original Rajya Sabha transcript for 8th July 2009. page 3, of...

Some pics from the event!

Indian Army shines in Everest Marathon 09 Army Release: Army Adventure Wing, Directorate General of Military Training, for the first time, fielded four members team in Everest Marathon, the world's highest, prestigious and renowned International High Altitude Adventure Sports event. The...

Another 660 Mw of nuclear power capacity in 6 months New Delhi July 2, 2009, Another 660 Mw of nuclear power capacity should become operational in another six months, from the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) at Kota and at the Kaiga Atomic Power Project (KAPP) in Karnataka’s Uttara...

IAF’s search for jets to begin in Bangalore Wednesday 8 July 2009 The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) search for 126 multi-role fighters in a mega $10 billion defence deal is expected to kick start from Bangalore where the planes will undergo the first round of trials in a month or two. The...

2007 Army winter trials for 228 Light Support Vehicles (LSV) order The vehicles in the line-up are (left to right): The Mahindra Axe, the Vectra LSV, the Flyer being fielded by the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), and the Tata LSV.

Here is one of those threads! Check it out. It was closed eventually! http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-aviation/27500-pak-acm-states-india-has-3500-bvr-missles.html

My intention was not to highlight the 2015 figure. We were having an interesting debate with some senior Pakistani members in some other threads where, they were arguing that we have just about 50-55 MKIs currently. No matter how much some Indian members argued based on facts and MKI serials...

Since, the defence minister himself has made this statement in the parliament, we can put an end to all the speculation about the current MKI numbers in the IAF!

IAF to have 230 Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter planes by 2015: Antony New Delhi, PTI: Government plans to more than double the number of Russian-made Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft in Indian Air Force fleet to 230 by 2015, Defence Minister A K Antony informed the Rajya Sabha Wednesday. Replying...

No problem dear! From your screen name it appears that you are a big fan of Mig-29 yourself, so be my guest!

All set for a quiet launch of India's first indigenous N-sub Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 New Delhi: More than two decades after it was conceived, India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine, for long called the Advanced Technology Vehicle project, is set for a quiet launch towards the...

MiG-29K simulator for Indian Navy Photos ©Copyright RAC-MiG Courtesy: Livefist

The millimetric wave seeker may be incorporated in future versions of the missile. But dunno if the IA s keen on that as it will increase the weight of the missile and might possibly reduce the range! Also, the cost of the missile with both IIR & MMW seekers will be exorbitant.

Sweden offers civilian nuclear technology to India Sunday, July 5, 2009 New Delhi (IANS): Sweden, a member of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, is offering New Delhi its niche expertise in nuclear waste management and security as it eyes India's $40 billion civilian nuclear energy...