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Most travellers from India’s international airports would be used to the sight of a bright red space-age looking vehicle with flashing lights waiting near the runway as aircraft take-off and land. These specialist vehicles belong to the Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) teams at these airports, whose highly trained teams and their state-of-the-art Aircraft Crash Fire Tenders (ACFT), are the first to reach any accident site involving an aircraft, within the airport premises
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ID:
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The ShinMaywa deal could be a harbinger of what may prove to be an extremely fruitful relationship in the aerospace domain between India and Japan. India’s geography makes it ideal for sea plane operations, and especially for humanitarian relief operations, one can only imagine the impact of the US-2i in flood and cyclone relief operations.
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ID:
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air power led by the IAF plays a crucial role in India’s defence posture
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135620
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A key improvement that has taken place across some of the newest acquisitions by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Navy (IN) has been the substantially improved aircraft on tarmac availability.
The biggest change has been the willingness of both services to pay for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance and service support packages which guarantee aircraft readiness rates instead of merely providing the required spares and maintenance support. Such an approach also allows the economies of scale to be leveraged across a worldwide spares support base and clear forecasting of spares requirements based on the manufacturer and user data. This is a far cry from the Eighties and Nineties when brand new aircraft inducted from the erstwhile Soviet Union had poor flight line availability, with the manufacturers not being held accountable for significant shortfalls in aircraft reliability and excessive consumption of spare parts.
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ID:
135622
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If recent developments are any indication, the Indian Air Force (IAF) seems to have finally managed to grab a slightly bigger role in the design, development and acquisition of military aircraft. The government had appointed deputy chief of air staff (DCAS), Air Marshal S.B. Sinha in the board of directors of the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), catering to the long-standing demand of the IAF. Immediately after taking over in this new position, Air Marshal Sinha had reviewed the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, Tejas. On September 3, he had flown the aircraft in Bengaluru to get a first-hand experience, and also reviewed the progress in the project. The press release from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) after the event quoted the DCAS as saying that “the aircraft handles well both on the ground and in the air”. P.S. Subramanyam, programme director (Combat Aircraft) and director, Aeronautics Development Agency (ADA) said, “This flight of Tejas by a senior IAF commander indicates the high degree of confidence in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft.”
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ID:
135623
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) in 2024 will have finally arrested the continued decline in its combat aircraft strength and attain a combat fighter aircraft fleet of 42 squadrons. For the first time, its fighter fleet will consist almost exclusively of twin engine fighters in the Rafale, Sukhoi-HAL Prospective Multirole Fighter (PMF), SU-30 MKI (upgraded), MiG-29 UPG and Jaguar strike fighter with the exception of upgraded Mirage 2000s, Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and few numbers of the MiG-21 ‘Bison’. It would have to cater for retirement from service of its entire MiG-27 fleet (an estimated 80 aircraft) and MiG-21 fleet (approximately 150 aircraft), starting a few years from now
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ID:
135625
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) is seeking to upgrade the capabilities of its Garud commandos by procuring 160-200 light bullet proof vehicles and 1500-1900 sub-machine carbines. The new acquisitions will increase the capability of the IAF’s elite force and also attract substantial interest from foreign and Indian companies
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135619
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Is it only India that faces a two-front dilemma? Ask your friendly neighbours and they will tell you that you are not alone. While Pakistan faces a two-front dilemma (on its western border, more of its own making though), the Chinese would be hard pressed to admit that there are several ‘fronts’ open at any given time for them to deal with — most notably due internal strife.
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ID:
135627
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A span of 100 days is too short a period for an objective appraisal of the performance of a government. However, initial indicators do reveal the direction in which the new dispensation plans to move and inter-se importance being assigned to various challenges facing the nation. Unfortunately, there is little to cheer the hearts of those who are concerned about the security of the nation. Worse, he has not been able to appoint a full time defence minister. The drift continues unabated.
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135624
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Defence minister Arun Jaitley’s recent decision in the Defence Acquisition Council’s (DAC) meeting to scrap the reconnaissance and surveillance helicopter (RSH) programme may majorly hamper operations in the Himalayas. The decision to cancel the 197 helicopter programme came on August 29 at the DAC meet, following the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) probe on corruption related allegations. This was the second time the programme has been cancelled after numerous delays.
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ID:
135618
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India declared its nuclear doctrine (summary) on 4 January 2003, a refinement of the draft doctrine made public on 17 August 1999. India had unique requirements to address in the strategic environment that forced it to operationalise the nuclear deterrent, concurrently decide on the policy, the strategy and the doctrine to be followed, from this doctrine emerged the concept of ‘Credible Minimum Deterrent’ (CMD). The doctrine is a dynamic concept related to the strategic environment, technological imperatives and the needs of national security.
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ID:
135628
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In a triumph for India’s scientific community last month, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Mars Orbiter spacecraft was successfully put into orbit around the Red planet. India’s success in getting a spacecraft to successfully orbit Mars in its maiden effort, makes it the first country in the world to achieve this distinction. ISRO has become the first space organisation in Asia and only the fourth in the world to have successfully inserted a spacecraft into Mars orbit.
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ID:
135626
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There was a time, not so long ago, when aircraft in the Indian Air Force (IAF) hangars - heavy-lift, rotary wing and fighter jets - were mostly Russian platforms. But now, the times are changing, and it seems like the air force is inclined more to the American platforms, at least for its transport and helicopter fleet. Presently, the most awaited are the Apache AH-64E attack helicopter and Chinook CH-47F heavy lift helicopter — both manufactured by the US defence major, Boeing. Interestingly, Apache and Chinook had emerged as winners after defeating their Russian opponents Mi-28N and Mi-26T2 respectively in the competition and will be replacing the existing Mi-25/35 and Mi-26 fleet of the IAF.
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ID:
135608
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India should have insisted on the LAC clarification during the Chinese president’s visit
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