5th Gen FGFA Deal with Russia about to Crash land : Report

SOURCE: EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE India has a record of sour defence deals. While the Rafael deal with France to buy 36 fighters jets at nearly `60,000 crore is stuck over a year despite announcement made by PM Narendra Modi during his Paris visit in April 2015, India’s biggest defence buy with its old military hardware […]

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SL eyes India’s Tejas fighter planes : Lankan Media

SOURCE: THE NATION IL Sri Lanka has expressed interest in purchasing India’s Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, an indigenously built fighter jet which had been in the making for several years, an Indian report said last week. Sri Lanka had recently rejected Pakistan’s JF-17 aircraft built with Chinese help, while Egypt had last year signed a […]

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Flight test of RLV-TD next month end: ISRO Chief

SOURCE: PTI The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) will flight test RLV-TD, a new generation reusable launch vehicle that can re-enter the atmosphere, next month end, the agency Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said on Saturday.“We will flight test in next month end Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration Program (RLV-TD), which can re-enter the atmosphere,” Mr. Kumar said. […]

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IAF to induct ‘Tejas’ squadron in June with 4 aircrafts

SOURCE: UNI The much-delayed and hyped Indigenous Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’ will finally be inducted to the Indian Air Force from June this year.Talking to mediapersons here today, Defence Aviation major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) Chairman and Managing Director T Suvarna Raju said initially four fighters would operate from the hangers of HAL here. Subsequently […]

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Pakistani-Americans urge US to stop India from ”encouraging Baloch separatists”

SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Scores of Pakistani-Americans have protested outside the Indian Embassy in Washington against an alleged “Indian intervention in Balochistan”, alleging that New Delhi is encouraging separatists elements there. According to Pakistani English daily Dawn, Pakistani-Americans from the districts of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland took part in the hour-long protest. Some of them were even […]

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Adding heft to diplomacy, India to send flotilla of warships to Persian Gulf

SOURCE: TNN India is dispatching a flotilla of warships to the Persian Gulf to add military heft to its ongoing stepped-up diplomatic outreach to countries of the region, while striking a fine balance between Sunni-led Arab states like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait on one hand and the Shiite Iran on the other. Defence ministry […]

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Military deal with US puts India in perilous ground; it will needlessly get into conflicts: Pakistani daily

SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA The recent US-India military deal will affect New Delhi’s strategic autonomy and the country would unnecessarily become part of military conflicts, as it has allowed itself to be a facilitator for the American forces, an expert wrote in a Pakistani daily. “India is playing a dangerous game. In the eyes of the world, […]

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