Earlier this year, a spokesman from the Agra-based Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), a DRDO subsidiary, announced that it had become proficient in designing and manufacturing brake parachutes used in various fighter jets being operated by the Indian Air Force. According to the statement, the technology was acquired through foreign technology transfer agreements and include aircraft […]
India’s perception of China has shifted the role of Tezpur airfield which previously hosted a MIG-21 training squadron. As the first airfield in the Northeast area of operations to receive the Su-30MKI multirole fighters, it’s not surprising that Tezpur airfield is seeing an overhaul. The latest imagery from 26 February 2013 shows an expanded parking-operations […]
India’s IBN live has reported that China has deployed PLAAF Su-27 (J-11) fighters to Tibet’s Gonkar airfield with the aim to put additional military pressure on the country. [1] Sources say Gonkar is a direct response to the Indian Air Force stationing Su-30MKI fighters in Chabua and Tezpur in Assam. These fighters with a combat […]
Defense Minister Antony will inaugurate a new airbase at Thanjavur on 27 May whose facilities will ultimately support a new squadron of Su-30MKI (Flanker-H) by 2018. In the meantime, the renovation of the airfield will increase India’s ability to defend the Indian Ocean region especially island territories in the East, reports the Times of India: […]
On 13MAR13, Defence Minister Shri AK Antony submitted a written reply to Shri Joy Abrahamin in the Rajya Sabha tallying Indian Air Force aircraft accidents over the past five years. From 2007 till the present (March 2013), a total of 34 MIG fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) have been involved in accidents/crashes. Anthony’s statement […]
After much hullabaloo over December’s pictures of China’s Y-20 strategic transport aircraft, Boeing announced the delivery of India’s first C-17A Globemaster III for flight testing at Edwards AFB in Palmdale, California. The January 23rd press release indicates Boeing is on track to deliver an additional four C-17A before year’s end. The remaining five will have […]
