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Since 2005, when Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Nashik, delivered the first “Made in India” Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, it has been HAL’s most lucrative cash cow. Referred to as the “MiG Complex” since it was established in 1964 for licence manufacture of MiG-21FL aircraft, the Nashik division has traditionally generated 30-33 per cent per cent of HAL’s annual turnover. Last year, it generated Rs 7,000 crore out of HAL’s total turnover of Rs 22,700 crore. This year, however, HAL’s ...

NEW DELHI: The indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft is now ready to carry the Israeli Python-5 air-toair missile, said the DRDO on Wednesday, after the short-range weapon was test-fired from the jet. The fifth-generation infra-red guided Python-5 missiles, which have a range of around 20 km, will add to the air-to-air combat capability of Tejas. The Israeli Derby beyond visual range missiles, with a 50-km range, had earlier been integrated with the fighter. “The test-firing of the two mis...

Korea’s New KF-21 Jet Isn’t A Stealth Fighter—But Could Evolve Into One The KF-21 jet’s projected unit price of $65 million is too high to be considered a bargain-bin jet like the Golden Eagle, but about two-thirds the price of advanced non-stealth fighters like the Rafale and Typhoon.  In a ceremony on April 9 attended by President Moon Jae-in, Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) unveiled the prototype of an advanced new indigenous KF-21 Boramae (“Hunting Hawk”) jet fighter at a fa...

Tejas Jets: Malaysia Gets Serious About LCA Tejas; To Visit India for Full Evaluation April 7, 2021 In a development that could herald a new dawn for India’s LCA Tejas fighter jets, the Malaysian Air Force team is arriving in India to “assess the suitability” of the fighter for a possible procurement order. India’s homegrown Tejas aircraft was recently ordered by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in large numbers, as it tries to bolster its squadron strength. According to the report in Economi...

Indias Improved Tejas Mark 2 Jet Fighter: Heres What We Know India hopes to recoup more from the substantial time and money devoted to the Tejas fighter program in previous decades. Heres What You Need to Know: The Tejas remains unexceptional compared to top-performing fourth-generation light fighters. In 2016 the Indian Navy rejected the domestically built Tejas jet fighter—or Light Combat Aircraft—after a troubled thirty-three years of development in which the maritime fighting branch ha...

New Delhi, April 1 The Indian Air Force (IAF) is expected to receive five more Rafale fighter jets by April-end. These five will be in addition to the batch of three jets that arrived from France yesterday. India to take part in Bangladesh military drill New Delhi: A multinational military exercise ‘Shantir Ogroshena 2021’ (Front Runner of Peace) will be held at Bangladesh to commemorate the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and mark 50 years of liberation. The Indian Arm...

Fourth Batch of Rafale Jets Land in India: Mapping Their Journey From France to Jamnagar News18 2 days ago Shreya Dhoundial © Provided by News18 Fourth Batch of Rafale Jets Land in India: Mapping Their Journey From France to Jamnagar It was to be a secret take-off and landing. But that’s not how it turned out, as the Indian Embassy in France tweeted pictures of three Rafale jets departing from the Merignac Airbase in Bordeaux. Rafales were refueled in-flight by UAE Air Fo...

Read more about DRDO joins exclusive club after long-range air-to-air missile test on Business Standard. Technology available only with a handful of countries, says defence ministry

Balakot, two years on: What changed for Indian Air Force since the airstrike © Megha Mishra Balakot, two years on: What changed for Indian Air Force since the airstrike Two years ago on February 26, the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted an airstrike in Balakot, Pakistan in response to the death of over 40 CRPF personnel on February 14, 2019, in a suicide terror attack conducted by Pakistan-based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). Since then, a lot has changed for the IAF. The force...

Uttam AESA radar integrated with LCA Tejas BENGALURU: In a major boost to indigenous defence technologies, at least 51% of the 123 LCA Tejas fighters that will be inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) will have the desi Uttam radar, replacing Israeli radars that the first batch of aircraft will be equipped with. In all, IAF will get 123 Tejas fighters: 40 in initial and final operational clearance (IOC and FOC) configurations and 83 Tejas Mark-1A, orders for which were placed in the first w...