Monday, September 05, 2011

T-50 PAK-FA Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft [FGFA] [Wallpaper-sized pictures]

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News that Russia's prototype fifth generation fighter aircraft the Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA would make flying demonstrations at Russia's b...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

NAC's Harsh Mander's link with Pakistan's ISI [Ghulam Nabi Fai "interface"]

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The Mainstream Media [MSM] in India has, as of 27 th August 2011, been on a spree of unrelenting, unceasing coverage of a fast undertaken b...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Two Quotes from History [India-Pakistan military at independence]

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On the 6 th of August 1947, on the brink of India's independence & the creation of Pakistan, a party was held to bid a warm farewel...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Create your own personal, custom search engine

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I read, & then I read some more. While a fair bit of what I read are good while I read it & no more, there are others I find more in...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

India's PSLV launch picture: a unique photograph

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Came across this picture of the launch of satellites using India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle [PSLV] . While varied launch photograp...

Professor Dr. Yash Pal - Science for all [weekend viewing & reading]

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Professor Dr. Yashpal Tuning into Doordarshan every week to catch the latest episode of Turning Point would be the high point of TV watchi...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

MiG-29 fighters of Indian Navy & Air Force [MiG-29K/KUB/UPG] [Photographs] - UPDATED

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On the 3 rd of August 2011, the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG invited journalists for a visit to their plant in Lukhovitsy near Moscow...
Monday, August 08, 2011

The Internet & way we remember information

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While using the Internet it has often occurred to me that, on occasions, there are certain information that I choose how to access when requ...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Professor Dr. Daulat Singh Kothari - a doyen of Defence Research in India [Weekend Reading]

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Professor Dr. Daulat Singh Kothari was, arguably, one the most prominent individuals who played a critical role in setting up the infrastruc...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

How to remove highlight from a text image [replace one color with another]

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For my previous post , I made use of an image which originally had highlighted text as seen below. While the content of the text was what I ...
Friday, August 05, 2011

a modest proposal from the Soviets...duly rejected by Indian Babudom

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with all credit & due apologies to Peter Landesman for lifting & then twisting the title of one of his articles   While going thro...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Polar & Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle [Infographic]

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While going through Dr. B.N Suresh's presentation slides, came across these infographics about India's Satellite Launch Vehicles -...

India's Space Shuttle [Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV)] program - some information

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Dr. B.N. Suresh, then Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center [VSSC] had made presentations where he spoke about India's Reusable...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

America's Space Shuttle: 135 flights, 1 page [& India's own Shuttle program thrown in for good measure]

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As the Space Shuttle Atlantis glided back & landed safely on Earth, it also brought down the curtains on NASA 's three decade long...
Friday, July 29, 2011

IPv6 made simple & easy. No,...not the transition [you wish!] The explanation

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June 8 has been recognised as the World IPv6 day . The recognition of the significance of the day, though, is mostly restricted to individua...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Indian Navy & Air Force's MiG-29 aircrafts [hi-res photographs]

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A collection of hi-resolution pictures of the variants of the MiG-29 aircrafts in operation with the Indian Navy & Indian Air Force. Th...