.. Home Page: The authoritative monthly on Defence and Strategic Affairs. Airbus Military launches improved C295W transport for India (With Image) Spain,Defence/Security, Mon, 10 Jun 2013IANS Saville (Spain), June 10 (IANS) Airbus Military has launched an uprated C295W medium transport aircraft with winglets and more powerful engines with an eye on the Indian military and civil aviation market. In official briefings at the recent launch ceremony here, company officials mentioned India more that a dozen times in view of the impending replacement of 56 HS-748 transporters of the Indian Air Force (IAF) while Airbus Military Chairman and CEO Domingo Urena-Raso told India Strategic (www.indiastrategic.in) that he expected the number of selected aircraft in this category to be more than 100.
Russia arms Indian 'Sea giant' sub with multi-role cruise missiles. Indian Army to get its own attack helicopters. All India | Written by Sudhi Ranjan Sen , Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Updated: October 13, 2012 10:22 IST New Delhi: In a move that is likely to raise hackles within the Indian Air Force (IAF), the government has decided to allow the Indian Army to acquire its own fleet of attack helicopters.
The decision comes days after IAF chief Air Marshal N A K Browne told reporters on October 5 that it was not possible to have "little air forces".
IAF crashes lose one fighter squadron every 2 yrs - Pale Moon. Over the last five financial years a total of 50 IAF aircraft have crashed, including 37 fighters and 13 helicopters by Ajai Shukla.
Russia to hand over nuclear sub to India in January. Russia will hand over the nuclear-powered Akula class attack submarine, the Nerpa, to the Indian Navy “by the end of January,” a source in the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Friday.
He made the statement in response to Russian media reports that the boat was to he handed over on January 19 as projected earlier. “The Nerpa will be delivered to the Indian Navy by the end of the month but not on January 19. Russia and India Sign Munitions Deal. How Shrimp Nearly Wrecked India's First Brush With A Nuke Sub. By Vice Admiral (Retd) R.N.
Ganesh As always, the submarine left harbour in the small hours, while the city slept. A huge, ominous shadow in the dark, she moved silently but for the faint hiss of the water against her sides. At five thousand tons, she was the largest warship in the Indian Navy after the carriers. The young Captain on the bridge had done this dozens of times, but taking this formidable vessel out through the narrow channel was still exciting, with a potential surprise lurking at every bend.
Slowly the submarine made its way out of the harbour and set course for the diving area. Before that, however, there was a game to be played. “Bridge - twenty minutes to diving area!” “We’ll catch a quick trim, then we need to crack on some speed; our initial position is about twenty miles south of here.”
Nuclear Optimism. No country has been more optimistic about the atom than India.
Most Indians believe in nuclear energy and in the ability of their nuclear establishment to deliver it efficiently and cheaply. Indian strategic analysts tend to be extremely confident, which often results in a dismissive attitude toward Pakistan. Indian government leaders have been proud about their ambivalence toward the Bomb, while being optimistic about the benefits of minimal nuclear deterrence. In Pakistan, on the other hand, deterrence pessimism reigns. This helps explain why India has been so relaxed about nuclear weapon-related issues, while Pakistan takes them so seriously.
Here are a few quotes from my shoe boxes that reflect India’s longstanding nuclear optimism: Indian Army Chief: Nukes Not For Warfighting » FAS Strategic Security Blog. .
By Hans M. Kristensen India’s nuclear weapons “are not for warfighting,” the chief of India’s army said Sunday at the Army Day Parade. The weapons have “a strategic capability and that is where it should end,” General V. K. India and Pakistan: Whose is Bigger? » FAS Strategic Security Blog. .
By Hans M. Kristensen If Indian news reports (here, here, and here) are any indication, India has once again discovered that Pakistan might possess a few nuclear weapons more than India. India is world's largest arms importer: SIPRI. STOCKHOLM, March 14 (Xinhua) -- India is the world's largest arms importer and the United States the largest arms exporter, showed figures of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published Monday.
"India received 9 percent of the total volume of international arms transfers during 2006-10, with Russian deliveries accounting for 82 percent of Indian arms imports," the SIPRI report said. Suppliers, including the Eurofighter consortium (comprised of Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain), France, Russia, Sweden and the United States,are competing for combat aircraft orders in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America, according to Paul Holtom, director of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Program. European producers, in particular, are seeking export opportunities and are benefiting from government assistance with export promotion activities.