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The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas successfully completed its maiden engine relight test on Friday -- a critical parameter the programme needs to achieve for the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC). Military sources confirmed to Express that the Limited Series Production (LSP-7) aircraft from the...

Australia has expressed interest in accessing top-grade space data from an Indian remote-sensing satellite that observes the ocean, besides willingness to be a part of a new regional-satellite navigation system that New Delhi is putting in place. In addition, Canberra wants data from...

Researchers in England may have finally settled the centuries-old debate over who gets credit for the creation of calculus. For years, English scientist Isaac Newton and German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz both claimed credit for inventing the mathematical system sometime around the end of...

BANGALORE: US space agency NASA and India's premier space agency ISRO are in talks for jointly building a satellite for the first time. "Now, there is a feasibility study going on whether we can jointly make a satellite, with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads working on two frequency...

GSAT-7 is exclusively meant for the armed forces In about a month, yet another but far more important Indian satellite for military communication network will be launched from the South American spaceport at Kourou. GSAT-7 or INSAT-4F is slated for launch on August 30 and is exclusively...

Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Communications and Navigation in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, have received signals from IRNSS-1A, the first satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Launched on July 1, 2013, the satellite reached its designated...

"Taking the daring step of breaking into the elitist league of space programmes 25 years ago, with a purely development-based agenda, India is firmly at the forefront of earth observation today. Let’s take a look at the remarkable journey." On April 26, 2012 PSLV C-19 roared into the...

Aerospace Industry Cooperation Between Ukraine and China Moscow Defense Brief China was the fourth country to sign a cooperation agreement with Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and an intergovernmental agreement on defense industry cooperation after the republic declared independence. The two...

:yahoo::tup: Salient points: 1. Agility 2. Asymmetric loading 3. Griffin LGB drop 4. IR missile launch and target chaff hit 5. Chaff disposal 6. nice views

A winged Re-usable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) has been configured to act as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies, namely, hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered cruise flight and hypersonic flight using air breathing propulsion towards realising a Two...

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This is a clip from video presentation by Dr. Pillai at Aero India 2013.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday conducted the tests of an advanced version of Cannon-launched Laser Guided Missile (CLGM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the Odisha coast. Altogether three rounds of the missile were test-fired from a specially built...

With several successful missile launches and many more in the pipeline, the DRDL has firmly established itself as the country’s premier technology laboratory. The Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, is a facility where thick scrub jungles coexist with...

Most of Tejas' problems stem from poor production rate, not from an inadequate design Ask any of the 20-odd Indian Air Force (IAF) test pilots who have flown the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and they will all swear that it is a great fighter to fly. It handles beautifully, screams along...

India's Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) aims to integrate the Kaveri powerplant with the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) Tejas fighter within the next nine months. A test aircraft operated by India's Aeronautical Development Agency will be used for the integration, says an industry...

jaipur: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to conduct the largest air show in Pokhran field firing range in February. The war exercise called ‘Iron Feast’ will showcase the strength of Indian Air Force war planes. President Pranab Mukharjee, defence minister AK Antony and chief...

Army proposes to scrap Future Main Battle Tank: instead build successive models of the Arjun The indigenous project to build a Future Main Battle Tank (FMBT) is being quietly buried by the army. Instead, the army’s tank directorate has proposed keeping faith with the home grown Arjun...