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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Siloo Manekshaw Visiting Soldiers Injured In The '71 War [Photograph]

Wife of India's, then, Chief of Army Staff General [later Field Marshal] Sam Manekshaw, visiting soldiers injured in the 1971 War for the liberation of Bangladesh.


Exercise EKUVERIN-12: India-Maldives Military Engagement [Photographs]

Soldiers from the Maldivian Army took part in joint exercises with their Indian counterparts in Belgaum, Karnataka.


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Light Combat Aircraft [LCA] Tejas - programme history & some balanced perspective

Air Marshal [Retd] MSD Wollen, under whose Chairmanship of HAL, commenced the LCA programme wrote this article.


Introducing Windows 8: Free e-Book from Microsoft

With the aim of arming myself to handle the inevitable proliferation of the cross-[Architecture]/[Form Factor] Windows 8 Operating System, I took to the "Interwebs" to search for a weapon of choice.


Indian Navy Officer Sets Sail To Circumnavigate The Earth, Non-Stop - Track His Epic Voyage

Lt. Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy has embarked on a historic voyage that will see him perform a circumnavigation of the Earth, non-stop.


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Pre-Flight Operation Involving The Rafale Fighter Aircraft At Its Airbase.....And Then Whoooosh!!!, Up It Goes [Video]

Video provides a look into the pre-flight activities performed at a French airbase, and the subsequent flight of the Rafale.


Hi-Res Pictures Of The Prototype Russian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft - T-50 PAK-FA

KNAAPO, the Russian Aircraft manufacturer building prototypes of the T-50 PAK-FA fifth generation fighter aircrafts, has made available this bunch of extremely hi-res photographs.


Friday, November 23, 2012

Oral History Of India's Constitution [Podcast]

Podcast describing the road to formulation of the singular document defining the Republic Of India - its Constitution.


Thursday, November 15, 2012

Prototype MiG-29K Fighter Aircraft Being Tested In The Soviet Union [Photographs]

A prototype 'Fulcrum-D' undergoing flight tests from Aircraft Carrier Admiral Kuznetsov during the time of the Soviet Union.


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Latest Satellite Imagery Eyeballing Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya in Russia

Overhead shot of the Indian Navy Carrier showing the INS Vikramaditya berthed at the Sevmash Dockyards in Severodvinsk, Russia.


Monday, November 12, 2012

Report: MiG-29K/KUB flight test from aboard Indian Navy Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya

This article, in the latest issue of the Take-Off magazine, gives a fair account of the flight test regime followed during the sea trials of the Vikramaditya that were conducted recently.


ISRO planning to acquire Ka-Band Communication satellites for India [Space]

The Indian Space Research Organisation [ISRO] has sought 'Expression of Interest' [EOI] for construction of communication satellites operating in the Ka-band of the frequency spectrum.


Saturday, November 10, 2012

MiG-29 KUB Fighter Takes-Off & Lands On Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya [Indian Navy]

Collection of videos showing a twin-seat Russian MiG-29 aircraft, the Naval KUB variant, performing take-offs & landing on the Aircraft Carrier, the INS Vikramaditya.