Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Bengal Air - West Bengal's Attempt To Fly

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The Communist Government of West Bengal, a quarter century ago, ventured into the civil aviation sector. Named Bengal Air, a consortium of t...
Monday, February 03, 2025

'Torkham' - USSR's Machination To Dismember India And Instigate An Indo-pak War

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India, in 1971, signed a pact with the erstwhile Soviet Union, called the 'Treaty of Peace, Friendship & Cooperation'. It was to...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

PLAAF Flying LCA Tejas

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 As China’s 6 th -generation combat aircraft breaks cover , one can find a curious footnote in the history of military aviation – Chinese p...
Monday, September 18, 2023

IAF's First C-295 Aircraft Has Been Spotted In Malta, Heading Home

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The first of the Indian Air Force [IAF] C-295 Aircraft is making it's way to India. The Airbus subsidiary EADS CASA handed over this CA-...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Kakrapar IPHWR-700 Nuclear Reactor Finally Starts Full-Fledged Operations

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India's largest Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor [PHWR] recently commenced commercial operations at the Kakrapar Nuclear facilty, the KAP...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

First Video Of INS Arighat - India's 2nd Nuclear Submarine

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H/T  @vivekrathod17 An intrepid ship-spotter caught the INS Arighat surfaced off the coast of Vizag. This is the first video of India's ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick - A Fanboy's Pilgrimage To The Theatres

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"Maverick is re-engaging" , three words that are akin to the eponymous "At the stroke of the midnight hour….." for an I...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

At India's Largest Indigenous Nuclear Reactor, Ventilation & Cooling Issues Have Halted Operations

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Some new information, throwing light on the stalled Unit 3 operation at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station [KAPS], in Gujarat.
Saturday, April 23, 2022

RAPS-7, India's Third 700 MW Nuclear Reactor To Go Critical Only By 2023, Delayed By another Year

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The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. [NPCIL] has postponed electricity generation from it's upcoming Nuclear Reactor in Rawatbhat...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

ISRO's AstroSat Satellite - The Scientific Payloads

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The satellite, AstroSat, which the Indian Space Research Organisation [ISRO] launched, back in 2015, was designed for a purpose without prec...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

NPCIL Halts Commissioning Of IPHWR-700 At Kakrapar & Other Indian Nuclear Updates

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India's news cauldron recently witnessed a bit of churning, when it was announced that the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. [NPCI...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Indian Navy MH-60R Maritime Surveillance Helicopter

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The Indian Navy is set to receive 24 of the MH-60R Helicopters, that Lockheed Martin manufactures at an estimated cost of $2.4 Billion USD. ...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team At The Dubai Airshow

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The Indian Air Force's air display team performing at the Dubai Air Show, last year.
Thursday, March 31, 2022

This Neat Illustration Depicts The LCA Tejas Aircraft’s Widely Diverse Weapon Loadout

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The Sanskrit saying, 'Big Thing Comes In Small Packages' or, as the Norwegians like to say, ' छोटे पैक में बड़ा धमाका ', coul...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

46 Angry MiG-23 Aircraft Set To Make Their Bollywood Debut

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This brief 3 seconds clip shows a CGI formation of MiG-23 fighters on a strike mission.

Outboard Motors Powering This Indian Army BMP-2 ICV Is Perhaps The Only Such Attempt In The World

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Having 3000-odd examples of a system & some surplus under-utilised engines in inventory allows one to tinker with it that result in such...