India defence-Updates

Saturday, 21 Dec 2013

Tejas surmonts a major hurdle- gets the much awaited Initial Clearance

 

A joyful moment for all those who were waiting for years (rather more than a decade since the first prototype flown  in 2001)  puzzling "When will LCA Tejas take to the Air Force..." . The much awaited IOC-II finally succumbs and LCA tejas finally gets in to Indian Air Force.

On 20th december,2013 the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony  handed over the Release to Service Certificate of the country’s own Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Tejas, to the Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, at a function in Bengaluru, marking the fruition of a long and difficult journey of three decades of efforts to make a fighter aircraft of international standards

 

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Date: 21 Dec 2013 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 4849/Rating:5

Thursday, 3 Oct 2013

Sleeping Kaveri engine project gets a wake up call from the Government

Having woken up to the progress made by countries like China in developing indigenous engines for military aircraft late, the Union government has directed the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to fast-track the ‘Kaveri’ engine project conceived as the power plant for the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). Much of the criticism for LCA Tejas can be contributed to Kaveri engine. The indigenous engine development somesaulted many target dates, that it was finally jettisoned from the LCAs project officially in september,2008 and is generally written off as a 25-year, Rs. 2,100-crore drain on resources. But now it looks set to resume where it left off two years ago and complete the last lap of its development. GTRE (Gas Turbine Research Establishment , a lab under the DRDO in Bangalore is the developer of the kaveri engine) is now running two separate successor engine programmes, the K9+ programme and the K10 programme.

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Date: 3 Oct 2013 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 9104/Rating:3.8

Monday, 9 Sep 2013

When will LCA Tejas take to the Air Force...Views and Videos

'Tejas' is the smallest , light weight, single engine tactical, supersonic, multirole, combat aircraft, best in its class in the world and is being developed by ADA, DRDO and HAL in single-seat fighter and twin seat trainer variants for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy. This programe which was initiated in the 1980s crops up in news now and then where critics questioning the delay/capabilities and admirers lauding its strengths/technologies come up in equal voice. I am one of those eagerly waiting citizen of India to see the Tejas flying high bringing laurels to the nation. As I keep searching the web to know what is happening with the Tejas - I am just presenting the information I came across

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Date: 9 Sep 2013 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 8988/Rating:4.6

Saturday, 22 Dec 2012

Astra Missile Tested Successfully

India on 21 December 2012 test launched its indigenously developed beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air interceptor missile Astra at the interim test range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha. The missile was fired from the launch pad number two of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) run missile testing centre at around 13.30 hours to confirm its reconfigured propulsion, control and guidance systems.

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Date: 22 Dec 2012 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 4528/Rating:5

Sunday, 4 Mar 2012

India Closer To Developing it's own "Eye in the Sky"

India amid challenging neighborhood,  already participated  in four wars with Pakistan, including one undeclared war and one war with China since the partition in 1947, as well as many border skirmishes and military stand-offs. Additionally, India has accused Pakistan of engaging in proxy wars by providing military and financial assistance to violent non-state actors. So India is pulling all it's resources to update and to equip it's defence forces with the Modern warfare. India is following a two prong approach, buying from the world players through defence deals with various countries and producing in-house by developing the skill  bank and industry. The indiginizing effort now a days gained good momentum even though not up to the required extent. LCA tejas , Kaveri Engine , Medium Combat Air Crafts etc. are at various stages of development. 

In th urge to develop advance technology in-house , India has moved a step closer to developing it's own Airborne Early Warning and Control System

 

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Date: 4 Mar 2012 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 6748/Rating:3.2

Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012

Micro-pilot less Lakshya successfully test flown

Indigenously developed micro-light and pilot-less target aircraft Lakshya-1 was successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore on Tuesday.

'Lakshya-1, fitted with an advanced digitally controlled engine was successfully test flown at about 11.40 AM to check the validity of its engine and duration enhancement, defence sources said."It is a routine trial by the users," the sources said.

 

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Date: 28 Feb 2012 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 4369/Rating:3.9

Monday, 21 Nov 2011

India's Own UAV Rustum I successfully tested 5th time

Indigenously designed and developed RUSTOM-1 made 5th successful Flight on 11th November, while flying at an altitude of 2300 ft AGL (above ground level) & at a speed 100 Knots during 25 minute of cruise near Hosur. It may be noted that this Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MALE - UAV) is developed by DRDO with Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) Bangalore as the nodal laboratory. It had its maiden flight in 2010.  

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Date: 21 Nov 2011 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 5001/Rating:4

Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011

India's Most Advanced Missile Agni IV Launched Successfully

India today successfully test fired the most advanced long range missile system Agni-4 today(15th november,2011). The missile was launched from a Road Mobile System at 9.00 AM from Wheelers’ Island off the coast of Odisha. The missile followed its trajectory with a range of more than 3000 Kms, in a text book fashion, attained a height of about 900 kms and reached the pre-designated target in the international waters of Bay of Bengal. All mission objectives were fully met. All the systems functioned perfectly till the end encountering the re-entry temperatures of more than 3000⁰C.

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Date: 15 Nov 2011 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 6992/Rating:4.9

Friday, 30 Sep 2011

Hat-trick Successful Missile Launch for India- This Time Agni II

DRDO Developed Agni II, the pride of India’s strategic arsenal was once again launched successfully this morning at 9:30 hrs from the Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa. The launch was a hattrick after successful launches of Shourya and Prithivi-II, on 24th and 26th September, 2011 respectively. The successful launch once again proved reliability of the Medium Range Surface-to-Surface Missile...  

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Date: 30 Sep 2011 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3506/Rating:5

Monday, 26 Sep 2011

Shaurya and Prithvi-II Missiles successfully tested

Within a span of two days, India demonstrated the reliability of two surface-to-surface missiles by successfully test-firing nuclear-weapons capable Shaurya and Prithvi-II ballistic systems on saturday(24th september) and Monday(26th september).

Shaurya, a nuclear-capable surface-to-surface medium range missile, was test-fired from Chandipur-on-sea off the Orissa coast at 2.30 PM on Saturday. The missile with a maximum range of 750 km was test-fired from an underground silo at Integrated Test Range of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)... 

 

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Date: 26 Sep 2011 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3456/Rating:NAN

Wednesday, 31 Aug 2011

Status of LCA Tejas and Kaveri Engine

Tejas (LCA) , India's very own Light Combat Aircraft has achieved an important milestone by gaining Initial Operational Clearance (IOC)  in December 2010 . This has authenticated the Indian aircraft's airworthiness. The birth of India's first fighter aircraft is thus certified. So far, 1,659 flight tests have been completed.

LCA, Tejas Phase-ll Programme (Air Force version) was sanctioned in November 2001 at a cost`of Rs.3301.78 Cr. with Probable Date of Completion (PDC) of December 2008. The project is likely to be completed by December 2012 with an additional cost of Rs.2475.78 Cr. The additional cost is to meet the expanded scope of the programme, increased cost of materials, manpower, maintenance of facilities, etc. 

Indian Air Force has ordered 40 Tejas Mk-I aircraft (20 aircraft in IOC and 20 aircraft in FOC standard). Two aircraft will be ready by March 2012 for induction.

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Date: 31 Aug 2011 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 7268/Rating:3.7

Sunday, 6 Mar 2011

Interceptor Missile Test Fired successfully

As part of its endeavour to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles,the indigenous interceptor was fired from Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak district.

"Aimed at developing a full fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, the trial was carried out from two launch sites of ITR off Orissa coast," defence sources said.

 

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Date: 6 Mar 2011 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3396/Rating:5 / Comments:

Wednesday, 22 Dec 2010

Nuclear Capable Prithvi II missiles tested successfully twice

Two nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missiles were successfully test-fired within a span of an hour by personnel of the Strategic Force Command from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur today.

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Date: 22 Dec 2010 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3656/Rating:5

Monday, 6 Sep 2010

Brahmos test fired in Steep Dive Mode - Creates a Record

In a major victory for the army, an advanced version of BrahMos block-II was successfully tested from the integrated test range at Chandipur off Orissa coast on 5th September(sunday) .. The highlight of the mission was the missile performing a steep dive at a supersonic speed.This is the first time in the world that a supersonic steep dive manoeuvre has been realised by a cruise missile said the military sources . 

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Date: 6 Sep 2010 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3886/Rating:NAN

Monday, 17 May 2010

Agni-II missile test-fired successfully

Agni-II, the intermediate range surface-to-surface ballistic missile, one of the key weapon systems of India's nuclear deterrence programme, was successfully flight-tested from the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast on Monday.

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Date: 17 May 2010 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3575/Rating:3

Friday, 30 Apr 2010

INS Shivalik India's first indigenious Warship Commissioned-video

India got its own stealth warship on Thursday when the indigenously manufactured INS Shivalik was commissioned into the Navy by Defence Minister AK Antony in Mumbai on Thursday.

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Date: 30 Apr 2010 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 4054/Rating:3.7 / Comments:

Friday, 12 Feb 2010

The Indian-Chinese Cold War of Missiles

As the memories of Cold War of USSR and USA faded long back, to fill the void now comes the cold war of China and India.Though the intensity of this Cold War is much less than what it was between USA and USSR, but the under currents were strong enough.

Relations between the two countries have ranged from post-independence bonhomie to armed conflict in 1962 to a state of armed peace. Despite a shared Buddhist religious history and an established trade along the Silk Road, there was historically little political interaction between the two. China is spending 4.3 % and India some 2.5%  of their GDP on Military. Both are making ICBM, IBRMs missiles. Recently India successfully launched Agni- III missile

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Date: 12 Feb 2010 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 4181/Rating:5

Wednesday, 10 Feb 2010

India Successfully tested Agni 3 Missile- Ready for Army use

Indian scientists  achieved a major milestone in missile technology when they successfully conducted the flight test of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) – AGNI III from the Wheeler Island, off the coast of Orissa  on  7th feb...

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Date: 10 Feb 2010 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 5410/Rating:4

Sunday, 22 Nov 2009

India’s all-female UN police unit serves as inspiration for Liberian women

Liberian girls and women should draw inspiration from the all-female Indian police unit serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to join law enforcement agencies in the service of their own nation, the top UN official in the West African country said today. 

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Date: 22 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 6578/Rating:3.7 / Comments:

Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009

Prithvi II missile successfully tested

n quick succession, India tested two advanced versions of the nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile, with a strike range of 350-km, from the Chandipur interim test range off the Orissa coast on Monday. 

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Date: 14 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: India, India Defence / Views: 4095/Rating:1

Sunday, 9 Aug 2009

Brahmos -- soon to be Air Launched!!!

Indian and Russian scientists are close to final development and testing of the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

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Date: 9 Aug 2009 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 5797/Rating:5

Wednesday, 5 Aug 2009

Arihant - India's First Nuclear Submarine!!!

Arihant - India's First Indigenous nuclear subamarine plunges into sea.

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Date: 5 Aug 2009 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 5235/Rating:3.3 / Comments:

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Israeli Phalcon Lands on India!!!

India on Monday became the first country in South Asia to own an Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS), called 'an eye in the sky', with the Israeli-made 'Phalcon' reaching Jamnagar airbase on the country's western coast on Monday morning.

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Date: 27 May 2009 , Author: / Category: India, India Defence / Views: 3834/Rating:5

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

After Grounding for three weeks Sukhois start flying again !!!

 Long-range Sukhoi fighter aircrafts have started flying again, nearly three weeks after they were confined to the hangars for checks following a crash.

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Date: 26 May 2009 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 2631/Rating:NAN

Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009

Brahmos All Set For Hypersonic!!!

Brahmos All Set For Hypersonic 

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Date: 21 Apr 2009 , Author: / Category: India, India Defence / Views: 3078/Rating:NAN

Sunday, 5 Apr 2009

Brahmos Fit to Be Inducted - Army and Stamp by Post!!!

Indian Army has Given it's green signal telling that Brahmos is Ready to be fired

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Date: 5 Apr 2009 , Author: / Category: India, India Defence / Views: 6945/Rating:NAN

Monday, 30 Mar 2009

New missile deal with Israel

India is believed to have reached a 1.9 billion dollar deal with an Israeli company for the supply and joint development of medium-range surface-to-air missiles. The defence ministry is yet to officially confirm the deal, but sources in the department of defence research and development (DRDO) said it was likely to go ahead......

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Date: 30 Mar 2009 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 3236/Rating:5

Sunday, 29 Mar 2009

Brahmos Block II Successful

India successfully test fired its BrahMos cruise missile, jointly developed with Russia, in Pokhran, said a spokesman for BrahMos Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.

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Date: 29 Mar 2009 , Author: / Category: India, India Defence / Views: 3251/Rating:NAN