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Search The Hawker Tempest Page. Richard J. Caruana. TT Mk5 in Detail. RC models in detail. Static models in detail. On 15 August 1947 itself, twelve Tempests carried out a flypast over the ramparts of the Red Fort, as Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the national flag that historic day. This ceremonial formation was personally led by Arjan Singh, later CAS and now Marshal of the IAF. Indian factory fresh Tempest IIs. Simon Watson WINGMAN AVIATION@ aol.com. Air Chief Mshl H Moolgavkar via Jagan Pilarisetti.
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MiG Alley: On Terrorism and the Apathetic Mango Indian
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Thursday, July 14, 2011. On Terrorism and the Apathetic Mango Indian. A little background on this piece: I wrote a large portion of the post that follows a little more than three years ago, shortly after the blasts in Jaipur. When the United States was attacked on September 11, it went into a minor recession. Because 3,000 people died! Each time we are attacked, we respond with the usual indifferent “ho-hum”. So what exactly did the jihadis gain? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. We aren’t losing money, w...
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MiG Alley: Post on Livefist: F-35: Should India Really Ride The Lightning?
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011. Post on Livefist: F-35: Should India Really Ride The Lightning? By a United States Department of Defence official, that the US would be willing to discuss a possible sale of the. To India, or even consider bringing India into the ambitious programme as a partner, has generated a lot of attention in. The Indian media. While this is not the first time. The F-35 has been offered. And I explain why we. Don't think the F-35 for India is a very good idea. November 17, 2011 7:39 AM.
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MiG Alley: Indi-Genius!
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Sunday, December 04, 2005. Before the flight of the Tejas. LCA, for those who choose to keep themselves uninformed) Prototype Vehicle – 2 (PV-2) on 2. The Tejas is a supersonic multi-role aircraft meant to replace the IAF's frontline. Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA). Is the main developer, while. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Scientists working at Lockheed Martin were sent back; equipment, software and documents were impounded. Even the C...
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MiG Alley: Enter the Republican Guard
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Sunday, January 28, 2007. Enter the Republican Guard. The pictures of the 10. Parachute Regiment jogging down Rajpath while chanting some slogan on Republic Day left me stunned. Till date, such hoo-haa drills were the sole preserve of the Pakistanis. And other Middle Eastern riff-raff. Why, oh why, have we decided to emulate the cartoon-like antics of the crappiest of chest-thumping Armies? Armies that have an impeccable combat record only against innocent women and children? View my complete profile.
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MiG Alley: My Column on Livefist: A Response to Ashley J Tellis’ Assessment of the MMRCA Down-Select
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Sunday, June 05, 2011. My Column on Livefist: A Response to Ashley J Tellis’ Assessment of the MMRCA Down-Select. Dr Ashley Tellis, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written a commentary for FORCE Magazine. I attempt to refute some of his arguments. Read the entire post on Livefist. Dr Tellis has also responded to the piece. In which he seeks to "set the record straight.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Enter the Republican Guard.
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MiG Alley: The "Failure" That is DRDO
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. The "Failure" That is DRDO. 1) 6,000 cr wasted, 10-yr delay and they want 150,000 cr more. Quite unsurprisingly, the first article of the series is the standard anti-DRDO rant. It seems to me that the Indian Express has a bone to pick with the DRDO. They have apparently missed the plethora of projects that the DRDO has successfully delivered. The Agni Missiles. The Akash SAM's 3D Central Acquisition Radar. The Battlefield Surveillance Radar. Or Russia’s latest Bulava. Anothe...
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MiG Alley: 21st Century... No Fox!
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Monday, May 01, 2006. 21st Century. No Fox! On May1, 2006, the Indian Air Force bid farewell to one of its most coveted and hush-hush assets – the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25RB “Foxbat”, known in the Air Force as “Garuda”. With the departure of the Foxbat, the Indian Air Force will not only lose its fastest aircraft, but also its premier spyplane – an aircraft that served it very well for over twenty-five years. In the 1950s, the. Began development of the North. American XB-70 “Valkyrie”. Ect aerodynamic dra...
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MiG Alley: Karan Thapar's Hatchet Job on Sam Bahadur
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Sunday, May 20, 2007. Karan Thapar's Hatchet Job on Sam Bahadur. The sight of Indian mediawallahs going ga-ga over “flamboyant” and “dashing” Pakistani Generals is hardly anything new. But when Karan Thapar joined the bandwagon, it came as a bit of a surprise to me. Because Thapar is no fool, or so I used to believe. His interviews with politicians and other big wigs are at times, simply brilliant. So when he readily bought into. If so, why were there no tough questions doubting Gohar’s credibility?
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MiG Alley: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012. The Indian Missile Shield: Nothing to be Baffled About. This is a unedited draft of my guest post. On Saurav Jha's blog on IBNLive. Recently, India Today magazine carried a column. False Argument #1: India's missile shield is not ready for deployment. To be fair, Joshi doesn’t state this explicitly, but drives the reader towards this conclusion by questioning the adequacy of the tests the missile shield was subject to. This, is spite of the presence of multiple. To mimic that ...
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