With Admiral DK Joshi’s resignation as Chief of Naval Staff on Wednesday, the entire seniority-based succession line to the Navy Chief’s post has dramatically changed. Admiral DK Joshi was to demit office as navy chief in Aug 2015. On his retirement, the Navy’s current Southern Command chief Vice Admiral Satish Soni would have taken over…
Month: February 2014
Indian Navy Chief Takes ‘Moral Responsibility’ For Accident Blitz, Quits
A dark day for the Indian Navy. For the time in its history, a Chief of Naval Staff — Admiral D.K. Joshi — has resigned. A ‘deeply upset’ Admiral met Indian defence minister A.K. Antony at noon today, hours after an accident on board submarine INS Sindhuratna, the latest in a series of mishaps that…
Fire Aboard Indian Submarine, 2 Officers Missing
The hits just keep on coming. The Indian Navy is now dealing with a second major accident involving a Kilo in the last six months. After the INS Sindhurakshak explosion that killed 18 personnel in August last year, its sister ship INS Sindhuratna experienced a serious gas leak in the battery compartment, activating the freon-based…
VIDEO: Akash SAM Army Variant Tested For Engagement Modes
DRDO Statement: Akash, the indigenously designed developed and produced surface to air missile for the Indian Army was once again successfully flight tested today at the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur. These were part of a series of trials being conducted in various engagement modes from the first of the production model system being produced…
Official Updated LCA Tejas Mk.2 Schematics, First Flight Target 2017
As you may have noticed, ADA has managed to get the engine wrong in this slide! It’s the F414-GE-INS6, not the GE-F404-IN20. The latter powers the Mk.1. These slides, and the one in the next post fresh off the ADA website.
BREAKING: Three Killed In Ecuador’s 2nd HAL Dhruv Crash
Terrible news just in. Three persons on board an HAL-built Dhruv helicopter of the Ecuadorian government were killed in a crash, the President’s office in the country has announced. The helicopter was reportedly on election duty, but was not assigned to transport the country’s president at any time. According to an AFP report, the Dhruv chopper…
HJT-36 Target FOC By Dec 2014, Says MoD
The HJT-36 Sitara intermediate jet trainer hasn’t obtained initial operational clearance (IOC) yet, but a statement was submitted in Parliament today providing some fresh timelines. Here it is in full: [The] Development of IJT is in the advanced stages of certification with more than 800 test flights completed so far. The activities are progressing well…
VIDEO: Unhealthy Obsession With Social Media Could Crash Your Jet, IAF Tells Pilots
My report today on Headlines Today on the Indian Air Force’s alert to squadrons across the country calling attention to an ‘unhealthy obsession with social networking tools’ and the flight safety threat it poses. Follow @livefisthttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jshttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsFollow @ShivAroorhttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Indian Sea Harriers Headline TROPEX 2014
Admiral D.K. Joshi, Chief of the Naval Staff and Vice Admiral Anil Chopra, FOC-IN-C East witnessing flying operations onboard INS Viraat during the ongoing month-long major exercise of the combined Eastern and Western Fleets in the Bay of Bengal.
New Pictures: 1st Kolkata-class Destroyer Ready For Indian Navy
Spotted these pictures of the elusive lead ship of the Kolkata-class (Project 15A) of stealth destroyers at Defexpo. The Kolkata is likely to be handed over to the Indian Navy by the end of next month. With sea trials complete, the ship is currently in dry-dock, chairman of Mazagon Docks Ltd told my network colleague…
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