HAL Bangalore: Main Airframe Static Test on Tejas
Photos: Ajai Shukla HAL, Bangalore January 2008 A Limited Series Production (LSP) Tejas fighter undergoing a Main Airframe Static Test (MAST...
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March 08, 2008
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Tuesday, 4 March 2008
HAL, not DRDO, will lead design of new aircraft
by Ajai Shukla Business Standard: 5th March 08 (Photos: Ajai Shukla) The Dhruv production line at HAL, Bangalore The robust new partnership ...
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March 04, 2008
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Saturday, 1 March 2008
Tejas Light Combat Aircraft: two-seater trainer photo
On popular demand, here's the first photograph of the first prototype of the two-seater trainer version of the Tejas LCA. I took the pho...
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March 01, 2008
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Friday, 29 February 2008
Defence budget: Rs 4200 crores lapse unspent
The allocation for India’s defence budget has been raised by exactly 10% this year, from Rs 96,000 crores to Rs 1,05,600 crores. This is a l...
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February 29, 2008
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008
HAL looks beyond offsets to grow
(Photos by Ajai Shukla: The Hawk production line; the first three Hawks being assembled in HAL, Bangalore) by Ajai Shukla Business Standard:...
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February 27, 2008
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Tejas LCA to get high-tech AESA radar
Dateline: HAL, Bangalore Business Standard 27th Feb 2008 (Photo: Ajai Shukla: The first Tejas painted in IAF grey) The Bangalore sunlight s...
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February 26, 2008
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Monday, 25 February 2008
Selling BMWs to farmers
Published in Business Standard 26th February 2008 By the 6th of March, six global aircraft majors --- Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Dassault, Eur...
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February 25, 2008
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Friday, 22 February 2008
Is China nibbling at the border?
This blog has previously discussed China's intentions on the Line of Actual Control (LoAC), which forms the actual boundary between the ...
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February 22, 2008
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Army LSV trials: Mahindra Axe
And here is the Mahindra Axe in summer trials in Rajasthan. Those of you reaching for your wallets, hold it! The vehicle is non-homologated,...
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February 19, 2008
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Winter trials for the army's Light Support Vehicles
Here's a family photograph of the vehicles that are competing for the army's requirement of 228 Light Support Vehicles (LSV). These ...
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February 19, 2008
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Defexpo 2008: RG 31 Mine Protected Vehicle
Here are some pictures of the best selling RG 31 Mine Protected Vehicle (MPV) from South African company OMC, which is now a part of BAE Sys...
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February 19, 2008
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Sunday, 17 February 2008
Defexpo hobbled
Editorial: Business Standard 18th Feb 2008 There is nothing pretty in the spectacle of wealthy global defence suppliers urging developing co...
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February 17, 2008
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Photos from Defexpo India 08 : Akash Missile
Akash missile on display at the Defexpo 2008 with one of its prime architects, Dr Prahlada
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February 17, 2008
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Saturday, 16 February 2008
Pictures from Defexpo 08: Nag Missile
This was my first view of the Nag missile... other than the test firing videos that I ran on my story on NDTV in January. Note the BMP-2 bas...
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February 16, 2008
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Friday, 15 February 2008
PREVIEW DEFEXPO 2008: Offsets provide a new momentum
Business Standard, 16th February 08 The sheer spending power of India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) --- Rs 300,000 crores or US $75 billion ov...
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February 15, 2008
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PREVIEW DEFEXPO 2008: Private sector eyes the defence pie
Business Standard 16th February 08 Defexpo India 2008 --- the fifth exhibition in a series that began in 1999 --- may be the first one where...
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February 15, 2008
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Thursday, 14 February 2008
China’s ghost hovers over naval symposium
by Ajai Shukla An extract from this piece was published in the Business Standard, on 18th Feb 2008 “This is the first new and significant in...
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February 14, 2008
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Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS)
I attended the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium today at New Delhi. It was enormously interesting and geo-politically significant. Do log in for...
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February 14, 2008
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Monday, 11 February 2008
Defexpo 2008: no announcements on offsets
Business Standard 12th February 08 Foreign arms majors who will be coming to Delhi for India’s major biennial defence exhibition --- Defexpo...
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February 11, 2008
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Will India again leave Afghanistan?
Business Standard 12th February 2008 Being forced out of a country by the enemy, like India was from Afghanistan in 1996, when Taliban fight...
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February 11, 2008
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Friday, 8 February 2008
Picture from Project Air Defence, Hyderabad
A longer shot of the endo-atmospheric interceptor. This is attributable please, if reproduced. "Photograph taken by Ajai Shukla in Janu...
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February 08, 2008
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Picture from Project Air Defence, Hyderabad
And here's the endo-atmospheric interceptor. A whole different story there in every respect. You can't miss the jet vanes... for the...
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February 08, 2008
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Picture from Project Air Defence, Hyderabad
A closer view of the Prithvi booster and the lower portion of the interceptor. Note the nozzle outlets for the smaller direction thrusters. ...
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February 08, 2008
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Picture from Project Air Defence, Hyderabad
For all you folks' viewing pleasure. This one is the exo-atmospheric interceptor. Since the picture has been taken by me, I'd be gra...
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February 08, 2008
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Saturday, 2 February 2008
Titanium: the new strategic gold
by Ajai Shukla Business Standard: 01 Feb 2008 Dateline: Hyderabad The Defence Materials Research Laboratory (DMRL) in Hyderabad heard with s...
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February 02, 2008
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