Month: October 2013
MMRCA Deal By March 2014: IAF Deputy Chief
The MMRCA fighter deal will be signed within this financial year, Air Marshal S. Sukumar, Deputy Chief of Air Staff has said today. He was speaking at the 8th International Conference on Energising Indian Aerospace Conference jointly organized by Confederation of Indian Industry, Indian Air Force & Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi.
Soldier Refuses Eid Leave, Killed In Pak Shelling Day Before Festival
Lance Naik Mohammed Firoz Khan of the Indian Army’s 38 Rashtriya Rifles counter-insurgency unit postponed proceeding on leave for Eid this week to remain on patrol on the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir. Yesterday, a day before the festival, he was killed in heavy shelling by the Pakistan Army in Poonch sector of…
Op Morning Glory: New ‘IAF’ Combat Game
Here’s a preview of Operation Morning Glory, the new combat game developed by my friend Anurag Rana and his team based on Indian Air Force fighters and scenarios. You’ll hear more here soon. Happy Air Force Day everyone! Follow @livefisthttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jshttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsFollow @ShivAroorhttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
1st Upgraded Indian Mirage 2000 Flies
FILE PHOTO The Indian Air Force’s first upgraded Mirage 2000H fighter made its debut flight at the Istres-Le Tubé air base in France yesterday. The upgraded Mirage 2000 (effectively now the ‘Dash-Five’ standard), sporting a brand new avionics suite, self-protection suite, the Thales RDY-2 multimode radar and other systems, is the first of 49 aircraft (2…
Agusta Initiates Arbitration Against India Over VVIP Chopper Suspension
Following this letter from AgustaWestland in April this year to the Indian MoD (mentioning the possibility of legal recourse) after the AW101 VVIP helicopter deal was suspended in the aftermath of the ‘chopper-scam’ revelations in Italy, here’s an expected statement from AgustaWestland today announcing arbitration proceedings against the Indian government: [Following] the suspension of the…
IAF Chief Sounds First Anxious Note On MMRCA
He’s been known to be unequivocally optimistic about the $20-billion M-MRCA fighter competition so far, but IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne sounded anxious and uncertain over the deal, currently still in negotiations. “We have no back-up plan. We need to get the deal going, or we’ll face a big shortfall of fighters in…
Top Indian MoD Acquisitions Man Dies
In tragic news, the Indian MoD’s pointsman on several sensitive and crucial cases and files, Arun Kumar Bal, died early this morning after a massive heart-attack near his Delhi home. As Joint Secretary (Acquisitions), he was best known as the top man dealing with the AgustaWestland AW101 VVIP chopper scam case, and also attended hearings in…
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