DRDO looks beyond HAL for Tejas production
The first LCA Navy, undergoing final fitment at the ARDC in HAL. The DRDO believes that HAL is overloaded and needs to outsource more of its...
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March 23, 2011
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Broadsword quiz... How does one visually differentiate between this Dhruv Mk III and the earlier models?
A Dhruv Mark III, painted in army camouflage colours, ready for delivery at HAL, Bangalore. Brownie points for those who can fully list out ...
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March 23, 2011
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Monday, 21 March 2011
Antony, pull the plug on the MMRCA
The five-Tejas flypast at the inauguration of the Aero India 2011 show at Bangalore on 9th February. The IAF has already placed orders on HA...
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March 21, 2011
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Saturday, 19 March 2011
Happy Holi!
Broadsword wishe s all its visitors a very happy Holi... that gr eat Indian festival of colours. May you all have a wonder ful time and be ...
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March 19, 2011
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Friday, 18 March 2011
India’s pirate catch, a drop in the ocean
By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 18th Mar 11 In 17th century London, shipping merchants gathered at Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House to pool mon...
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March 18, 2011
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011
US Marine Corps reaffirms the faith with the F-35. The Marines will buy the carrier as well as the STOVL variants
Photo: the first two production F-35 fighters undergoing final assembly at Lockheed Martin The Pentagon is hardly backing off --- contrary t...
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March 16, 2011
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Broadsword quiz... level "challenging". What ship is this and what does it do?
Here is something to cheer you all up after your unsuccessful tries in the last couple of quizzes! Don't just give me the name of the sh...
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March 15, 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
FBI trains Indian police on crime scene management and forensics
An example of the more useful cooperation that is growing between Washington and New Delhi. Pasted below is a press release from the US Emba...
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March 14, 2011
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Sunday, 13 March 2011
The INS Kalpeni, which intercepted a pirate mother ship in the Arabian Sea yesterday
The INS Kalpeni being handed over to the Indian Navy last October in Kochi. Today, 61 pirates sit on its deck! The official account of the i...
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March 13, 2011
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Innovation Track: Detecting explosives at the click... er, sniff... of a mouse
How it works: People being scanned pass through a Bioexplorers system and a fan passes air into a sensor receptor which has four to eight m...
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March 13, 2011
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Friday, 11 March 2011
Strategic Forces Command test Prithvi and Dhanush missiles
Above and right: Photographs of the two short-range ballistic missile tests that were conducted today by the Strategic Forces Command. The o...
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March 11, 2011
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Broadsword quiz... level "easy". What's that in the photo?
After the two last difficult quizes, here is something to make you feel good about yourselves! What is it that you see in this photograph. E...
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March 09, 2011
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Monday, 7 March 2011
Engage Pakistan’s army
by Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 8th Mar 11 The going-nowhere dialogue with Pakistan will restart later this month when foreign secretary, ...
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March 07, 2011
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Sunday, 6 March 2011
In Siachen, Dhruv proves a world-beater
Photo credits: No use without ascribing to "Ajai Shukla at www.ajaishukla.blogspot.com" A Dhruv lands at the Indian Army's Son...
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March 06, 2011
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DRDO successfully tests anti-ballistic missile (ABM) interceptor
The DRDO today announced a successful interception at 16 km altitude by an ABM interceptor. The official press release is pasted below INTER...
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March 06, 2011
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Friday, 4 March 2011
China matches India’s expansion in military spending
Right: Attending a Sino-Indian border meeting at the Spanggur Gap near Chushul Below: Flying back to Leh in an IAF Cheetah past the Panggong...
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March 04, 2011
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011
First production F-35 takes to the skies!
I know that many of you out there are no supporters of my years-old suggestion to scrap the MMRCA tender... and my more recent one to make u...
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March 02, 2011
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Broadsword quiz... level "challenging". ANSWER POSTED
ANSWER TO THE QUIZ IS POSTED IN THE COMMENTS. POSTED HERE IS A PHOTO OF THE LSP-2 --- WHICH WAS BUILT WITH A REINFORCED FUSELAGE --- ON THE ...
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March 01, 2011
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