Category: News

Video: Indian Navy’s brand new MiG-29 Simulator Facility

by Shruti Pushkarna • May 16, 2013

Check out the navy’s spanking new MiG-29 Simulator Facility as Commander MP Felix takes you around on a guided tour of the complex.

by Shruti Pushkarna • May 12, 2013

Lt Commander Akash of INAS 336 shows off the Indian Navy’s Sea King helicopter.

by Shruti Pushkarna • May 12, 2013

Commander NS Baberwal, Commanding Officer of the Indian Navy’s Kamov-31 AEW Helicopter Squadron, INAS 339 describes the features of the aircraft in detail.

by Shruti Pushkarna • May 12, 2013

Commander KHV Singh of the Indian Navy MiG-29K/KUB squadron, INAS 303 (Black Panthers) takes us around the aircraft.

by Saurabh Joshi • April 30, 2013

The Flag Meeting took place on a day when Indian Defense Minister Arackaparambil Kurien Antony had some tough words for the intruders at the Unified Commanders Conference of the Indian armed forces.

by Saurabh Joshi • April 22, 2013

Kavi kehna kya chahta hai? Giving the iteration a thumbs-down, defense industry executives questioned the rationale behind some of the amendments and also expressed pessimism, saying in some cased it would ‘make things worse’.

by Saurabh Joshi • April 20, 2013

These changes are skewed to favor and encourage defense industry in India, some of which appear to have been influenced by reactions to corruption scandals. Do have a look at the list of changes, copied and pasted, verbatim, from the defense ministry press release.

by Saurabh Joshi • April 9, 2013

The troops were part of the UN Mission in South Sudan. Five other Indian army personnel were also injured. The casualties belonged to the Indian Army’s 6 Mahar and 9 Mechanized Infantry regiments.

by Saurabh Joshi • March 25, 2013

Rolls Royce is hoping the IAF will select it’s Trent 700 engine over the GE CF-6 engine for the Airbus A-330 MRTT aircraft and is relying on performance, costs and market leadership to make its case.

by Saurabh Joshi • March 4, 2013

Here’s a look at the pattern of the defense budget in the past two years and the changes in priorities for expenditure in the year 2013-14.

by Saurabh Joshi • March 4, 2013

This is the central plan segment of the MEA’s total expenditure, which is budgeted to be INR 11719 crore after last weeks budget announcement. Bhutan remains far ahead of Afghanistan as India’s largest beneficiary of foreign aid.

by Shruti Pushkarna • February 15, 2013

Shruti Pushkarna puts together a graphic representation of the process of selection of the AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter by the Indian Air Force (IAF), on the basis of the White Paper issued by the defense ministry on Thursday.

by Saurabh Joshi • February 14, 2013

Blacklisting is the politician’s response to cop out of responsibility for ensuring a corruption free defense acquisition process, that serves no purpose for either the Indian armed forces or the taxpayer, and is effectively the application of rules that govern the PWD (Public Works Department).

by Saurabh Joshi • February 13, 2013

Here’s a quick narrative of how the alleged AgustaWestland corruption scandal unfolded, with links to the reports filed by the intrepid Manu Pubby of The Indian Express.

by Saurabh Joshi • February 13, 2013

The story about the arrest of Giuseppe Orsi, Chairman and CEO of Italian defense and aviation company, Finmeccanica, broke sometime on Tuesday afternoon, a few days less than a year when investigations first began into the company over allegations of corruption in Indian contracts.