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“We now call the Tejas Mark 2 a medium weight fighter, or MWF”, said a senior Tejas designer in a classified briefing in New Delhi on Friday, which Business Standard attended. Consequently, the Tejas Mark 2 is now being billed by the IAF as a replacement for the Mirage 2000 medium fighter, rather than the lightweight MiGs that are retiring soon.
A naval Combat Management System (CMS) is the computer system that connects a ship’s sensors, weapons, data links and support measures to the staff performing the combat tasks. Some of the functions include sensor control, sensor data fusion, threat evaluation and weapons control.
The SPORT aircraft would be utilized for fighter training after Advanced Jet Training stage and before induction of pilots into a frontline fighter squadron, he noted.
The space doctrine will provide a framework for the response/ activation of India’s ASAT if a foreign threat is identified.
A cancer patient from Bangladesh was on-board an IndiGo flight from Pune to Kolkata. She suffered a cardiac arrest midair. Following an announcement from the crew, the Air Force doctor volunteered and saved her with help of two other doctors.
“The Russian side is carrying out pre-commissioning activities as part of an offset to create the Major Repair Center in the city of Chandigarh for a number of main units and subsystems of helicopters of Mi-17V-5 type.
The missile’s name comes from the names of two rivers: the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia. The missile’s first launch took place on June 12, 2001 from a coastal launcher. The missile’s production has been arranged at enterprises in Russia and India.
In an exclusive interview to ANI, DRDO Chairman G Satheesh Reddy said that this was a new missile developed specifically as an anti-satellite weapon. “The missile has technologies developed for ballistic missile defence applications, particularly the kill vehicle,” said Reddy. He added that in addition to this, rocket motors developed in missile complexes, were all integrated to make a new A-SAT missile.
IAF sources told Jane’s on 28 March that the MoD’s Contract Negotiation Committee (CNC) concluded consultations with Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) – which is in a joint venture (JV) with Airbus for the MTA programme – to procure the 62 platforms for around EUR2.8 billion (USD3.15 billion).
India projected the Tejas aircraft in a big way at the five-day Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) in Malaysia as it has been manufactured indigenously at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy.
