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Sunday, 28 September 2008

Broadsword will spend the next one year on the India-China border

Maps above: the Sino-Indian border. The disputed areas are shaded maroon. I will be living and working over the coming year near the border ...

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Tuesday, 16 September 2008

shipbuilding

The Indian Navy’s Dhruv: falling between two stools

by Ajai Shukla Prodded by questions from visitors to this blog, I have spoken in some depth to the Indian Navy as well as to the designers o...

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Sunday, 14 September 2008

DRDO announces successful test firing of Astra Air-to-Air Missile

(Ph otograph courtesy DRDO) The Astra air-to-air missile being test fired from a ground-based launch platform on 13th Sept 08. The DRDO has ...

Broadsword September 14, 2008 27

Thursday, 11 September 2008

Indian Navy

The naval version of the Dhruv ALH

Your many enquiries have been noted about the naval version of the Dhruv, the problems it is said to have experienced, and the Navy's ap...

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Tuesday, 9 September 2008

strategy

Chopping prices in the chopper market: Part 3 of a three-part series on India's thrust in helicopter building

(Photos: courtesy Ajai Shukla) Right: An elevated view of HAL's Dhruv assembly area. The new ALH squadron being raised has its hangar al...

Broadsword September 09, 2008 30

Monday, 8 September 2008

strategy

Light Combat Helicopter to fly soon: Part 2 of a three-part series on India's new thrust in helicopter building

Left and Below: computer images of the final LCH design, produced by HAL's in-house integrated design centre. Below: a mock-up of the LC...

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Sunday, 7 September 2008

strategy

The great helicopter challenge: (Part 1 of a three-part series on India's new thrust in helicopter building)

(Photos courtesy: Ajai Shukla) The first prototype Weapon Systems Integrated (WSI) version of the Dhruv ALH. HAL will produce 60 ALH-WSIs fo...

Broadsword September 07, 2008 34

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Back from China. Coming up soon... updates and photos of India's helicopter programmes... the Dhruv, the LCH and the LOH.

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Monday, 25 August 2008

strategy

China's strategic thinking: A gold medal for mental gymnastics

Top: Posing in front of a street-length screen, placed by the Beijing City Administration to screen off the under-construction area behind ...

Broadsword August 25, 2008 6

Friday, 15 August 2008

strategy

Armed forces to fund DRDO projects

Army not happy with the decision of it having to fund 10 per cent of the cost. by Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 16th Aug 08 The Ministry of...

Broadsword August 15, 2008 5

Thursday, 14 August 2008

strategy

More pictures from Georgia of T-72 (and one T-90?) post-hit damage

I've read a lot of comments that seem to suggest that the Arjun would survive most hits from an enemy tank... or even from a missile. Th...

Broadsword August 14, 2008 16

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

russia

T-72 vulnerability again illustrated in Georgia

My friend, Prasun Sengupta, has kindly sent these two photos --- two of destroyed Georgian T-72BV MBTs and the other of a destroyed Iraqi T-...

Broadsword August 12, 2008 13

Monday, 11 August 2008

strategy

Western doctrine, Russian arms

by Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 12th Aug 08 India’s new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP-2008), unveiled by Defence Minister AK Antony o...

Broadsword August 11, 2008 8

Sunday, 3 August 2008

strategy

India’s new Defence Procurement Policy defines, for the first time, a list of 'defence products' (list at bottom)

[photo: courtesy Ajai Shukla: The DRDO's Bharani Low Level Light Weight (LLLW) radar, which covers gaps in an integrated air defence gro...

Broadsword August 03, 2008 3

Friday, 1 August 2008

Private Sector

Ministry of Defence releases new defence procurement procedure, DPP-2008

by Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 2nd Aug 08 Defence Minister, AK Antony, today released the new policy that will govern defence procurement...

Broadsword August 01, 2008 5

Thursday, 31 July 2008

russia

Nailing some more falsehoods about the Arjun tank... and some about the T-90!

False argument No 1: The Arjun tank, after decades of failure, can’t suddenly have turned the corner! It hasn’t “suddenly turned the corner”...

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